I Deserve To Heal: Freed British-egyptian Activist Alaa Abd El-fattah On His Prison Ordeal And Next Steps

The campaigner, who spent more than a decade in an Egyptian vortex of incarceration, wants to join his son in the UK while he reflects on the fight for freedom The British-Egyptian human rights activist and writer, in Cairo, has said he wants to come to the UK to be with his autistic 14-year-old son. Alaa Abd el-Fattah said he feared his mother might have died on hunger strike during the 12 years he spent in what he described as a vortex of incarceration.