INTERNATIONAL British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended his hunger strike, according to a note his family received from prison in Egypt on Tuesday. The detainee had been on hunger strike for more than seven months to protest against his imprisonment. The note, addressed to his mother Laila Soueif, said he had "broken" his strike, which he began on 2 April. Last week the imprisoned activist began refusing water too, coinciding with […]
INTERNATIONAL The UN has demanded the Egyptian government release imprisoned activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is currently refusing both food and water while incarcerated. Abd el-Fattah was an icon of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and has spent eight of the past 10 years in jail on various charges. He was rearrested in September 2019, and again in December 2021, when he was sentenced to five years in prison by an emergency state […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
