‘Time is running out’: 12 Nobel laureates urge Keir Starmer to intervene in case of jailed activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner

A group of Nobel laureates have written to the British prime minister Keir Starmer urging him to intervene to help free the imprisoned writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah.

Twelve laureates including JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk have signed the letter.