Jamie McConkey
Senior Westminster Newsdesk Journalist at BBC
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Adam Hale |Jamie McConkey
A mother who has been on hunger strike for 134 days to campaign for her son to be freed from an Egyptian prison has asked Sir Keir Starmer to continue to press for his release if she dies "in the coming days". Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah - a British and Egyptian citizen - was due to be freed in September 2024 but remains in jail. His UK-born mother Laila Soueif has consumed nothing but herbal tea, black coffee and rehydration salts since.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
yahoo.com | Jamie McConkey |Alex Smith
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has met survivors of grooming gangs in Oldham and Rotherham, describing the meeting as "quite shocking". Speaking to GB News, she said it was "extraordinary" hearing victims describe going "to the authorities multiple times... and in one particular case the police actually handed her, a 12-year-old, into the hands of her abusers".
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