US President Joe Biden has called for the release of a prominent pro-democracy campaigner who is on a total hunger strike in an Egyptian prison. Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a key figure in Egypt’s 2011 uprising, began a partial hunger strike in April, but then stopped drinking water as of Sunday, to coincide with the start of a major UN climate conference in Egypt, according to his family. “The US is requesting his release, we’ve made no bones about that,” US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said following a meeting between Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi on Friday. Al-Sissi a…