A Dublin teenager who has spent over a year imprisoned without charge in Egypt has ended the hunger strike he started two weeks ago.

18-year-old Ibrahim Halawa ended his strike following an emotional plea from his father, Sheikh Hussein Halawa, Ireland's most senior Muslim cleric and Imam of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Clonskeagh.

Ibrahim went on hunger strike after his mass trial was abandoned earlier this month.

He was just 17 when he was arrested alongside his three older sisters in Cairo in August 2013, after a day of protest which followed the ousting of Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohammed Morsi. At least 97 people died during the protests.

Mr Halawa is one of 494 defendants held in relation to the protests. 

No new trial date has yet been set after a judge refused to deal with the case, causing a mass trial to be abandoned.

Amnesty International has concluded that Mr Halawa is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.

Ibrahim's sister Nosayba Halawa spoke to Newstalk earlier this month after visiting her brother in prison, and said he had been badly beaten: