56 days of hunger strike. I’ll keep going until I’m dead — or my son is free
When I arrive in Walthamstow to meet Laila Soueif, the 68-year-old almost two months into a hunger strike, I expect to find a frail and fading old lady. Instead, Soueif, who, by Thursday, had not eaten for 53 days, answers the door briskly with long …