Taoiseach told of Ibrahim Halawa hunger strike last week

Oireachtas committee members want to visit teenager in Cairo prison

Somaia, Fatima and Omaima Halawa, sisters of  Ibrahim Halawa, demonstrating outside  Government Buildings earlier this month.  Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

Somaia, Fatima and Omaima Halawa, sisters of Ibrahim Halawa, demonstrating outside Government Buildings earlier this month. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan were told last week that Ibrahim Halawa, the Irish teenager detained in Egypt for almost two years, was considering hunger strike.

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