THE family of jailed British-Egyptian human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has announced that he has broken his hunger strike. 

The activist, who was sentenced to five years in jail last December for taking part in pro-democracy activities, reportedly sent a note to his mother from inside prison telling her: “I’ve broken my strike.”

Mr Fattah, who had been on partial hunger strike for 200 days, stopped drinking water over a week ago. He escalated his protest to coincide with the first day of Cop27 in a bid to draw world attention to his plight.