In Britain, Laila Soueif, the mother of imprisoned British Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, has resumed an almost total hunger strike to demand the release of her son. She spoke in front of the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street Tuesday as she applies pressure on the U.K. government to secure the freedom of her son, who is also on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison.

Laila Soueif: “The prime minister made a promise to me and to Parliament to do all he could to free Alaa. A few days ago, my daughter Mona received a truly humane letter from Mr. Starmer, assuring all of my family of his continued support. But for Alaa, sitting in prison, now on hunger strike for 81 days, since the 1st of March, nothing has changed.”

Egyptian authorities have kept Alaa Abd El-Fattah behind bars for most of the past decade over his human rights advocacy.