MPs have asked that Boris Johnson’s government apply “maximum pressure” on Egypt human rights to get a consular visit for UK citizen Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly two months, saying that his situation is “dire and urgent.”

More than 30 MPs and peers wrote to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss last week urging her to press for his immediate release, stating his treatment sets a “dangerous precedent” and that failure to act could jeopardise the rights of all Britons abroad.

Mr Abdel-family Fattah’s fears he may die after 56 days on only water and rehydration salts as he challenges Egypt’s decision to deny him the basic legal right to a visit from the British embassy.

The parent and famous rights campaigner has been imprisoned for the majority of the last decade. Following his detention and torture in 2019, he was sentenced to another five years in prison on what rights groups claim are fabricated charges following a sham trial.

Egyptian officials have prohibited him from exercising, seeing the sun, or even knowing the time for the past three years. Egypt human rights Mr Abdel-Fatttah was eventually granted the privilege to hold a book for the first time in two and a half years on Thursday, after Scottish Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael highlighted his case in parliament.

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