UK not able to visit Alaa AAbd el-Fattah in prison

The UK says that Egypt did not allow its consular officials to visit Alaa Abd el-Fattah in prison, and they don't even know whether he is still alive.

His hunger-and-thirst strike is a dying effort to rebuke Egypt's harsh repression; spreading the word about this, as the British minister did, multiplies the effect. My posting about it here will multiply it a little more.