la al-Qaradawi, daughter of Qatar-based Egyptian imam Yousef al-Qaradawi, has gone on hunger strike after almost a year in solitary confinement in Egypt, her lawyers and family said.
The 56-year-old woman and her husband Hosam Khalaf were arrested on 30 June 2017. While their detention has been periodically renewed, they have not been presented with formal charges or a trial date, according to their attorneys.
Qaradawi told her lawyer in Cairo on Tuesday that she is "done with one year of solitary confinement," her daughter Aayah Hosam said.
"She said, I'm done with this, and I can't take this anymore, so I'm going on a hunger strike from today to demand my freedom," Hosam told Middle East Eye.
Hosam suspects that the couple's detention is related to a regional feud between Egypt and Qatar.