The family of imprisoned British Egypt activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah said they were worried about their health with their mother Laila Soueif because both of them continued to starve to demand his freedom.

Soueif's relatives said they feared she had suffered a full-scale or partial hunger strike eight months later "died in slow motion." "What should we do, just sit around and wait for death?" Sueve said.

Fattah, who was in a prison near Cairo, was treated for vomiting and severe stomach pain earlier this week and took nothing for more than 55 days after eating diet tea, black coffee and rehydration salt.

His mother embraced her own hunger strike in February at St Thomas Hospital in London, and began a hunger strike that received drips of glucose aimed at saving lives.

Soueif started a hunger strike last September after Fattah sentenced to five years in prison (his sentence) in the Wadi El-Natrun desert prison. Egyptian authorities have been sentenced to jail for terrorism by social media posts on torture, claiming his sentence will be terminated in January 2027.

"Alaa started a strike when she was told I was going to the hospital. Now he was sick alone, in prison, and we didn't know that until he was sick for a week. What else can we do?" Soueif said, who was growing desperate, saying British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ignored the request to release his son.

Fattah became a British citizen through Soueif in 2021. His family had hoped that obtaining British citizenship would quickly increase pressure on Egyptian authorities to release authors, computer programmers and activists, known as one of the most outstanding prisoners of conscience in the Arab world.

Earlier this year, Soueif started sitting in a daily sit-in during a hunger strike at the gates of Downing Street, trying to oppress Starmer to speak directly with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and demanded that he release his son.

A few months later, when her blood sugar dropped to dangerous levels, Soueif was hospitalized. She later met Starmer in mid-February.

A week later, the Prime Minister told Parliament, “I will do my best to ensure the release issued in this case, which includes the phone.

According to Downing Street's telephone readings, he spoke to Sisi on February 28, where he "urged Alaa to release".

The conversation prompted Soueif to switch to a portion of the 300-calorie daily hunger strike and was discharged from the hospital in early March. But there has been little sign of a government change in the two months since Starmer and Sisi's speeches.

"When the Prime Minister talked to President Sisi, I started taking about 300 calories. But that was two months ago, nothing happened."

A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said: "Ensure that Mr. Alfata is still an absolute priority so that he can be reunited with his family. We continue to urge the consul to enter."

They added that British Foreign Minister David Lammy spoke with his Egyptian counterpart on April 9.

Soueif's nephew Omar Robert Hamilton said his aunt was in poor health because she tried to survive a partial hunger strike. The 68-year-old activist and math professor withered a few months later, had no real sustenance, and was no longer able to stand upright.

"Three hundred calories a day are not enough to sustain life, and her muscles are eaten," he said. "It's like she's dying in slow motion."