PREVIEW

Laila Soueif, the mother of jailed British-Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah, speaks at a press conference in London on the 59th day of her hunger strike.

The event follows a meeting with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy earlier in the day.

Soueif, accompanied by her daughters Sanaa and Mona Seif, urged the UK government to increase diplomatic efforts to secure Abdel Fattah's release from Egyptian custody, where he remains detained under harsh conditions despite completing his sentence in September