Popular Angolan rapper Luaty Beirao ended his five-week hunger strike in prison for the sake of his wife and their daughter, his lawyer Luiz Nascimento is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
According to doctors who examined him, he was weak and lucid, having lost 15kg (33 pounds) since he started refusing food on 21 September, AFP reports.
Mr Beirao, has been charged with seeking to overthrow Angola’s long-serving President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, which he denies.
An engineer by training, he was arrested in June along with 14 others at a meeting of youth activists.
The rapper stopped eating after his custody was extended beyond the 90 days permitted by law, and he was hospitalised on 15 October as his condition deteriorated.
“Luaty terminated [the strike] because his fellow detainees and his wife asked him to, for her sake and for their daughter’s,” his lawyer said.
He and his co-accused are expected to stand trial next month.
