Family sees prisoner after hunger strike ends

The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said they were allowed to see him for the first time in nearly a month yesterday and that he is ‘‘very, very thin’’ after ending a hunger strike that prompted widespread concern for his health. The activists’ mother, aunt and one of his sisters visited Abdel-Fattah at the prison of Wadi elNatroun, north of Cairo. They said the conversation was conducted through a pane of glass with a headset, during which he told them that he halted his hunger strike after collapsing in the shower last week. ‘‘He was exhausted, weak and vulnerable,’’ the family said in a statement, read out by Abdel-Fattah’s aunt Ahdaf Soueif to journalists at the family’s Cairo home. ‘‘He was very, very thin.’’