UK – The Guardian, February 28, 2025
After more than 150 days without food, Laila Soueif says she will continue until there is some positive news from Cairo.
Laila Soueif, lying in a hospital bed after refusing all food for 152 days in a bid to free her jailed son, agreed on Wednesday night to be put on a glucose drip, although it is only likely to delay her full collapse by days.
She said she had taken the step as part of a deal she had reached with her children that they would be allowed one chance to intervene before she collapses.
It is likely she will last the next few days, but thereafter she is back to the unknown, and has only been surviving with such low sugar levels because her decline has been a slow process, allowing her body to adapt.
