Column — Alaa Abd el-Fattah Has Not Yet Been Defeated

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Forty-year-old Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah has embarked on a hunger strike to the death, as the Egyptian government is doing all it can to silence him. Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest interviews, read through show transcripts, search the vast news archive or to make a donation to support our nonprofit news program. Livestream weekdays 8 a.m. ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, SoundCloud and iTunes.