FILE - Egypt's leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah speaks during a conference at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 22, 2014. Egyptian authorities have transferred Abdel-Fattah from a maximum-security prison where he was allegedly tortured and denied basic rights to a new correctional facility, his family said on Thursday, May 19, 2022. The transfer came as Abdel-Fattah had been on a hunger strike for nearly 48 days to protest his imprisonment conditions, according to his family. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)