Laila Soueif (centre), the mother of the 40-year-old British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, takes part in a vigil for the jailed pro-democracy activist who has been incarcerated in Egypt for most of the past decade, outside the Foreign, Commonwealth

Laila Soueif (centre), the mother of the 40-year-old British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, takes part in a vigil for the jailed pro-democracy activist who has been incarcerated in Egypt for most of the past decade, outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in Westminster, London, calling on the UK government to urgently press for his release from jail in Egypt, July 3, 2023