British PM Sunak to keep pressing Egypt over hunger striker

FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addresses delegates during the COP27 summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 7, 2022. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would keep pressing Egypt over imprisoned Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has had no contact with his family since he said he would stop drinking water this week.

Sunak, who raised the case with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the U.N. climate summit at an Egyptian Red Sea resort on Monday, said the situation was becoming "more urgent by the day.