_News_ | *From Syria: Freedom for Alaa Abdel Fattah*👇 Syrian activists gathered on Monday in solidarity with Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah, whose mother, Laila Soueif, faces life-threatening health risks after launching a hunger strike. From Damascus’s Hijaz Square, they also called for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and justice for Syrians forcibly disappeared in the Assad regime’s prisons.