Jailed British-Egyptian activist ‘to stop drinking water on first day of Cop27’

Egypt’s leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah has started a full hunger strike (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

A British-Egyptian activist imprisoned in Egypt has started a “full hunger strike” and plans to stop drinking water on the first day of the Cop27 climate summit next week, his family said.

Alaa Abdel-Fattah rose to prominence with the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings that swept the Middle East and in Egypt toppled long-time President Hosni Mubarak.