The family of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is refusing food and water, demanded information on his health on Wednesday amid what they said were “rumours of force-feeding”. International concern has mounted since Abdel Fattah, 40, who is imprisoned in Egypt, escalated his months-long hunger strike by also declining liquids since Sunday, the start of the UN climate summit COP27 hosted by Egypt in Sharm El-Sheikh. His UK-born mother Laila Soueif has made daily trips this week to the Wadi Al-Natroun prison, about 60 miles (100 kilometres) north of Cairo, but has received…