CAIRO — Several jailed opposition activists in Egypt began a mass hunger strike Feb. 11 to protest their pretrial detention. The first three included former member of the secular April 6 Movement Walid Shawky, former media official in the 2018 election campaign of Sami Anan Ahmed Maher and prominent political activist Abdel Rahman Tarek.
They were later joined by several other detained activists, bringing the number of hunger strikers to 12 so far, according to Shawqy's wife Heba Anis.
