‘I am willing to die’: hunger-striking mother of writer jailed in Egypt fights on in London hospital bed
After more than 150 days without food, Laila Soueif says she will continue until there is some positive news from Cairo Laila Soueif, lying in a hospital bed after refusing all food for 152 days in a bid to free her jailed son, agreed on Wednesday night to be put on a glucose drip, though it is only likely to delay her full collapse by days.She told the Guardian she had taken the step as part of a deal she had reached with her children that they would be allowed one chance to intervene before she collapses. Continue reading...
After more than 150 days without food, Laila Soueif says she will continue until there is some positive news from Cairo
Laila Soueif, lying in a hospital bed after refusing all food for 152 days in a bid to free her jailed son, agreed on Wednesday night to be put on a glucose drip, though it is only likely to delay her full collapse by days.
She told the Guardian she had taken the step as part of a deal she had reached with her children that they would be allowed one chance to intervene before she collapses. Continue reading...
