The US State Department on Tuesday reiterated a call for Egypt to conduct an “investigation without delay” into the death of economist Ayman Hadhoud, after an Egyptian court upheld a decision to close his case.

Egyptian activist Mona Seif announced Wednesday that she had begun a hunger strike in solidarity with her jailed brother Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has reportedly gone for 75 days without food.

British-Egyptian writer and political activist Alaa Abdelfattah has spent over 70 days on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison demanding that he receives a consular visit.

An Egyptian political prisoner is on an open-ended hunger strike after being denied treatment for cancerous tumours in his body.

Egyptian lawyer Khaled Ali on Thursday said prison authorities have denied him access to Egyptian-British political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has not been allowed lawyer visits since 2020, despite having acquired an official permit, the first in over a year.

The aunt of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah has accused Egyptian authorities of intending to let him to “die”, in a series of tweets posted onto social media on Tuesday.

Imprisoned Egyptian-British political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah is still on hunger strike, his family has said, denouncing claims to the contrary by a government-appointed human rights council.

A presidential pardon on Wednesday saw Egyptian opposition figure Yahya Abdelhadi released from jail after three years, a lawyer said, making him the country’s latest political prisoner to have his sentence curtailed.

Investigative authorities in Egypt have released activists Abdel Rahman Tarek, known in the media as Mocca, Egyptian lawyer Khaled Ali said on his personal Facebook page.

A former Egyptian minister and governor has suffered a stroke in the Tora prison complex, south of the capital Cairo, amid mounting concern about his health. There has been a ban on visits to former Minister of Local Development Mohamed Ali Beshr, 71, since 2018.