Leading Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, jailed for violating a strict protest law, has been moved to a prison hospital.
Omar Hamilton, one of his cousins, said the 33-year-old blogger and software engineer was transferred to a prison hospital on Monday morning after his blood sugar level plunged.
He said Wednesday marked the 80th day of Fattah’s hunger strike.
Hamilton said he was one of several jailed activists to have mounted hunger strikes in the past year to protest their imprisonment.
He said Fattah has been in and out of jail since 2011 on various charges, he was re-arrested most recently in October along with 20 other people pending their retrial on charges of breaking a law that bans protests without a police permit.
Fattah was one of a number of well-known activists from the 2011 uprising that have been jailed since the army overthrow elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in mid-2013.
His 20-year-old sister Sanaa is serving a two-year sentence for violating the protest law. (Reuters/NAN)
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