THE family of jailed human rights activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah says they have received confirmation that he is still alive. 

Fears for the British-Egyptian national had been growing after he stepped up a hunger strike on the first day of the climate summit and stopped drinking water. 

Since then Mr Abdel-Fattah’s mother had not received a note from him inside the prison, sparking fears that he was no longer alive.