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Mother of jailed UK-Egyptian vows to maintain hunger strike

The mother of a British-Egyptian activist blogger imprisoned in Egypt told UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Wednesday she will keep up a two-month-old hunger strike until he is released.Laila Soueif, 68, who has not eaten for 59 days, met Britain's new top diplomat for the first time to press her case for the UK government to do more to secure the release of her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah.
Source: Al Monitor
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Former UK soldier found guilty of spying for Iran

A former British soldier who escaped prison ahead of his trial was found guilty at a UK court on Thursday of spying for Iran but cleared of a bomb hoax charge.A jury at Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London found army soldier Daniel Khalife, 23, guilty of espionage and terrorism charges, including eliciting or attempting to elicit information likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism.
Source: Al Monitor
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