In Egypt, the mother and daughter of a prominent pro-democracy activist are on hunger strike to demand his release and the release of his imprisoned sister. Laila Soueif and Mona Seif have been on a partial hunger strike since September. They stopped eating and drinking water on Monday when Alaa Abd El-Fattah was detained yet again for breaking an anti-protest law. El-Fattah has been imprisoned multiple times since Egypt’s 2011 revolution, missing the birth of his child and, more recently, the death of his father. His sister Sanaa has been sentenced to three years in prison and has been on hunger strike for more than 60 days.