Egyptian authorities have transferred a prominent political activist from a maximum-security prison where he was allegedly tortured and denied basic rights to a new correctional facility, his family said on Thursday. Alaa Abel-Fattah was transferred from Cairo’s Tora prison complex to Wadi El-Natroun prison in the north of the country, where he was visited on Thursday by his family, his sister Mona Seif wrote on Twitter. The transfer came as Abdel-Fattah had been on a hunger strike for nearly 48 days to protest his imprisonment conditions, according to his family. Abdel-Fattah had been serving…