Mr. Naji is an Egyptian novelist, and the author of the memoir “Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison.” He wrote from Las Vegas, where he is in exile. Shortly after I ...

But for Alaa, sitting in prison, now on hunger strike for 81 days, since the 1st of March, nothing has changed.” Egyptian authorities have kept Alaa Abd El-Fattah behind bars for most of the ...