Egyptian-British political detainee Alaa Abdel Fattah wrote that he was no longer on hunger strike in a letter delivered on Tuesday to his family, who hoped to see him on Thursday after being denied visitation for a month.
In this missive dated Monday, the pro-democracy blogger, icon of the Arab Spring and pet peeve of the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who will be 41 years old on November 18, writes: "I have put an end to my hungry” and “I want to celebrate my birthday with you on Thursday, bring back a cake”.
He does not explain why he started eating again, saying only: "I will see you in the visiting room and I will tell you everything then".
"What happened inside?"
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"What happened inside?"
What was negotiated?
asks his aunt, the famous writer Ahdaf Soueif on Twitter.
"Let's not forget that Alaa has no idea of the support around him on the outside.
He is in prison, with no other information than what (his jailers) decide to give him.
"I won't be quiet until my mom and sister see Alaa with their own eyes on Thursday," the inmate's sister, Mona Seif, tweeted.
When the detainee's hunger strike was over, lawyer Tarek El-Awadi, a member of the presidential pardons commission in Egypt, said "hope that the State will quickly take measures to pardon him as well than several other convicts".
To denounce his incarceration and that of the 60,000 prisoners of conscience in Egypt according to NGOs, Alaa Abdel Fattah swallowed for seven months only 100 calories a day.
On November 2, he had stopped eating and on November 6, at the opening of COP27 in Egypt, he had decided not to drink either.
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