An Australian journalist, who was once jailed for 400 days in Egypt, said he is staging a hunger strike in London to press the British government to help secure the release of jailed Egyptian-British dissident, Alaa Abd Al-Fattah, Reuters reports. Abd Al-Fattah, a software developer and blogger who rose to prominence as an activist in the 2011 Arab Spring, was jailed for five years in Egypt over a social media post, a sentence that followed several previous spells in prison, including before and after the uprising. Peter Greste, on Monday, joined Abd Al-Fattah’s mother, who has been on a hunger strike ever since Egyptian authorities failed to free her son on a scheduled release date of 29 September last year. The … Continue reading Former Australian prison mate of jailed Egyptian-British dissident goes on hunger strike