Jailed Egypt activist on hunger strike moved to new prison
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have transferred a prominent political activist from a maximum-security prison where he was allegedly tortured and denied basic rights to a new correction facility. Alaa Abdel-Fattah’s family said on Thursday that they visited him in the Wadi El Natrun prison, located in a desert valley to the north of the country. The transfer came as Abdel-Fattah had been on a hunger strike for nearly 48 days to protest his imprisonment conditions. The activist spent most of the past decade behind bars and his detention has become a symbol of Egypt’s return to autocratic rule.