(10 Nov 2022)
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Cairo - 10 November 2022
1. Wide of Laila Soueif, mother of Alaa Abdel-Fattah, during interview
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Laila Soueif, Mother of Alaa Abdel-Fattah:
"I said I want to know if Alaa is alive, if he is alive, I want to know if he is conscious, I want to know if he's had any medical intervention, and if it's been done by force or by consent. And he said Alaa is alive, he is well, he has had medical intervention, we don't do things by force "
3. Picture of Alaa Abdel-Fattah
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Laila Soueif, Mother of Alaa Abdel-Fattah:
"I think the chances are very high that he will not get out and he will not be safe. So, I can't really imagine after. I know that everyone is trying and stuff like that, but the way I see it, nobody within power is trying seriously enough "
5. Picture of Alaa Abdel-Fattah
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Laila Soueif, Mother of Alaa Abdel-Fattah:
"I am amazed at how weak the British government appears in response, they can't even get a consular visit, it really is very strange, but part of that is just bad luck that there has been all this turmoil and two changes of the government and the queen died, part of it is bad luck that there has been all this turmoil right now when things are so crucial for Alaa."
7. Soueif's hands
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Laila Soueif, Mother of Alaa Abdel-Fattah:
"I have trained myself not to examine my feelings, because that is the only way I can go on just you know turn everything into a job to be done, a job to be done "
9. Wide of Soueif during interview
STORYLINE:
The family of imprisoned Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah demanded word on his condition after prison authorities on Thursday told them he was undergoing an undefined medical intervention and blocked a lawyer from seeing him.
The dramatic developments came days after Abdel-Fattah escalated a hunger strike and stopped drinking water.
His mother, Laila Soueif, said she was having difficulty imagining that authorities would actually let her son go after the years-long ordeal.
"I think the chances are very high that he will not get out and he will not be safe. So I can't really imagine after. I know that everyone is trying and stuff like that, but, the way I see it, nobody within power is trying seriously enough," she said.
Abdel-Fattah, who has been imprisoned for most of the past decade, had been consuming minimal calories for months but stopped all intake of food and water on Sunday, the first day of the COP27 climate conference.
At the Sharm el-Sheikh gathering, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz raised the activist's case in their talks with el-Sissi.
Abdel-Fattah gained British citizenship through his mother, who was born in London.
Late Thursday, Egypt's public prosecutor released a statement, saying a medical team had examined Abdel-Fattah after receiving a complaint from him on 1 Nov. and that he  was found to be in stable health. The statement did not specify when exactly the checkups took place, or at what stage in his hunger or water strike, only that Abdel-Fattah had willingly undergone them.
The nature of the most recent medical intervention was also not immediately known, and it was not clear if he was moved to a prison hospital.
She asked them if he was undergoing any medical procedure and they said he was.
Abdel-Fattah is serving a five-year sentence on charges of disseminating false news for sharing a Facebook post about a prisoner who died in custody in 2019.
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