U.K-Egypt: Mother of jailed activist hospitalised amid hunger strike

The mother of a pro-democracy activist imprisoned in Egypt is seriously ill in a London hospital after resuming a hunger strike aimed at pressing for her son’s release, her family said Friday. Laila Soueif was admitted to St Thomas’s Hospital on Thursday night with dangerously low blood sugar levels. “The bottom line is, we’re losing her,” her daughter, Sanaa Souief, said outside the hospital. She added: “(Prime Minister)…