Jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has escalated his five-month hunger strike, a family member told Reuters, eliminating his meagre intake of solids as part of his campaign to protest his detention. A leading voice in the 2011 uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, some rights groups say his case shows Western countries including Britain and the United States put national interests ahead of promoting…