A gaggle of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature urged world leaders on Wednesday to boost human rights points as they go to Egypt for the Cop27 local weather change convention.

In a letter despatched to varied heads of state, the group of 15 Nobel Laureates requested the visiting diplomats and politicians to “devote part of your agenda to the many thousands of political prisoners held in Egypt’s prisons”.

In explicit, they requested for the case of distinguished imprisoned British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah to be raised, as he escalates his starvation strike on the convention’s first day.

Mr Abdel-Fattah’s household stated he began a full starvation strike on Tuesday and plans to begin denying himself water as of November 6, the primary day of the worldwide local weather convention.

His household has expressed fears that with out water he’ll die earlier than the convention concludes on November 18.

Mr Abdel-Fattah, an outspoken dissident and a British citizen, rose to prominence with the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings that swept the Middle East and in Egypt toppled long-time President Hosni Mubarak.

The 40-year-old activist spent many of the previous decade behind bars and his detention has grow to be a logo of Egypt’s return to autocratic rule.

As a world highlight focuses on Egypt forward of the local weather summit within the Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Mr Abdel-Fattah’s household has been lobbying for his launch. His sister, Sanaa Seif, has been staging a sit-in on the headquarters of the UK’s Foreign Office to push the UK to take motion in his case.

The authorities of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, a US ally with deep financial ties to European nations, has been relentlessly silencing dissenters and clamping down on impartial organisations for years with arrests and restrictions.

Many of the highest activists concerned within the 2011 rebellion have fled the nation or at the moment are in jail, most beneath a draconian regulation handed in 2013 that successfully banned all avenue protests. Human Rights Watch estimates there are greater than 60,000 political prisoners behind bars.

The organisers stated the letter has been despatched to Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, US President Joe Biden and US Climate Envoy John Kerry, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the King, the President of France Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz along with different worldwide leaders.

Max Blain, a spokesman for Mr Sunak, stated on Wednesday that the UK authorities is “raising his case at the highest levels of the Egyptian government” and “working hard to secure Alaa Abdel-Fattah’s release”. Mr Blain stated he couldn’t say whether or not Mr Sunak will increase the case when he attends Cop27.

The letter was signed by Nobel Prize for Literature winners Svetlana Alexievich, JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Louise Gluuck, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Kazuo Ishiguro, Elfriede Jelinek, Mario Vargas Llosa, Patrick Modiano, Herta Muuller, Orhan Pamuk, Roger Penrose, George Smith, Wole Soyinka and Olga Tokarczuk.

Mr Abdel-Fattah can also be a author. The letter marketing campaign was organised by two publishers who’ve distributed his writings, Fitzcarraldo Editions and Seven Stories Press.

His most up-to-date assortment of essays, a few of them written from inside a jail cell, is entitled You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.

It was printed in April, and addresses points of world injustice as societies evolve. The letter quotes one among his writings on local weather change.

“The crisis is not one of awareness, but of surrender to the inevitability of inequality. If the only thing that unites us is the threat, then everyone will move to defend their interests,” the letter reads.

“But if we collect around a hope in a better future, a future where we put an end to all forms of inequality, this global awareness will be transformed into positive energy.”