A leading human rights watchdog on Thursday urged Egyptian authorities to allow the family of a prominent activist serving a five-year sentence access to him, and reiterated calls for his immediate release. For nearly 10 days, Alaa Abdel-Fattah’s family members had not received any word from him and were told by prison officials that he is refusing to meet with them, Amnesty International reported. The London-based group also urged authorities to urgently grant the United Kingdom consular access to the 40-year-old computer programmer. Abdel-Fattah has been on a hunger strike for nearly 110 day…