Dr. Laila Soueif, Egyptian activist and @alaa's mother, has begun a hunger strike

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in protest of his detention and of the junta trying civilians in military trials.

This is the notice from the No Military Trials site, organized by her daughter Mona:
http://www.nomiltrials.com/2011/11/blog-post_06.html

This is the (crappy) Google translation. I don't think there is an English press release yet.

Said Dr.. Laila Soueif on hunger strike from today - the first day of Eid - to protest the imprisonment of her son, Alaa Abdel-Fattah up without any justification is torturing him for his political views and his criticism of the junta.

Akhtaralnaúb year was a telegram sent at around 2 and a half and came in a telegram:

Attorney general
Attorney General of the Giza Prosecution College
Went on strike today Laila Mustafa Soueif, to protest the continued incarceration of her son Alaa Ahmed Seif al-Islam Abdel-Fattah, in case No. 855/2011 on behalf of the Eastern military

No cable card:

This is an article about her from Feb 2011 in the LATimes:

A family nurtured in rebellion

For the Seif family — long active in leftist politics in Cairo — the Egyptian uprising was a long time coming. And when it did, they were prepared, though this time it was the children who would take the lead.
February 13, 2011|By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times



Reporting from Cairo — Friends coming to call at the Seif family's comfortable apartment in Mohandiseen over the last two weeks were likely to be disappointed, but not surprised. The Seifs, longtime activists who have been familiar fixtures at most demonstrations in Cairo over the years, have been waiting for Egypt's revolution since the 1970s. When it called, they moved like sailors to battle stations.

Laila Soueif, a mathematics professor at Cairo University, organized faculty marches across the central city and set up a camp spot in Tahrir Square. Daughter Mona Seif, 24, helped lead the march on the Egyptian TV building and posted updates on Twitter from her encampment outside parliament.

Younger daughter Sanaa, 17, compiled video for a documentary on the uprising from Tahrir Square. Son Alaa, 29, flew in from South Africa in time to join the melee against pro-government mobs in Tahrir, then helped organize the march on parliament.

Soueif's husband, lawyer Ahmed Seif El-Islam Hamad, was arrested while trying to organize legal defenses for detained protesters, spent two days in the custody of Egyptian military intelligence, then returned to Tahrir to help the younger organizers of the uprising.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/13/world/la-fg-egypt-revolutionaries-20110213

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1. @Alaa talking to Democracy Now! reporter at Tahrir on 2/9/11

15 days into the revolution, the day the protesters left the square and marched on state television building.

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/2/9/egyptian_youth_activist_speaks_with_democracy_nows_sharif_abdel_kouddous

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2. Digging around, I see she was also arrested on Jan28 by Mubarak.

alaa oh oh news my mom Dr. Laila Soueif has been arrested by Mubarak's state security dogs #Jan25
Jan 28

http://thetweetwatch.com/Detail/Status/31037901970087936