Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has joined mounting calls for Ashya King to be reunited with his jailed parents as Portsmouth City Council calls for a halt to extradition proceedings against them.
Brett King and his wife Naghemeh, from Portsmouth, remain in police custody in Madrid while a Spanish court considers whether to grant a British extradition request.
Ashya, who has a brain tumour, is under police guard at the Materno-Infantil hospital in Malaga, about 330 miles south of the capital.
He has not seen his parents since they were arrested on Saturday after taking him out of Southampton General Hospital to seek specialist cancer treatment abroad.
A court in Madrid has called the parents for a hearing tomorrow morning ahead of a judge's decision on their extradition.
Ashya's parents arrived at court on Monday Britain's Crown Prosecution Service is also reviewing the case.
Nick Clegg told Sky News it was a "heartbreaking" situation.
"I've got a five-year-old son and the idea of leaving him in a hospital with no contact with parents and siblings fills me, as I imagine it fills all parents, with horror," he said.
"I would like to see the family reunited and then hopefully people can calmly make a decision about what should happen next.
"Throwing the full force of the law at two parents who in a state of despair and anguish are acting they say because that's what they think is best for their child, doesn't seem to me to be the appropriate thing to do."
Ashya petition founder Ethan Dallas and family friend Sanjay Ganatra Portsmouth City Council Leader, Donna Jones, issued a statement calling for an end to the extradition proceedings.
"Like others who have been watching this upsetting case unfolding in the media, I have been moved by the plight of the King family and am most concerned about Ashya. I believe what he needs now is to be with his family," she said.
"That's why I am urging the CPS to urgently review the case involving Ashya King's parents and remove any extradition proceedings, so the family can be reunited with their five-year-old son."
Meanwhile, a petition calling for the family to be reunited has been handed in to Downing Street.
It has also emerged that Ashya's parents are planning legal action against Southampton General Hospital.
Ashya's brother Naveed said the family had all the right medical equipment However the hospital claims it had discussed options for alternative proton beam therapy with the family at a facility in Prague.
"We were willing to support the family's transfer to Prague for proton beam radiotherapy, although we did not recommend it," a spokesperson for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust said.
Over the weekend a spokesman for the hospital said that "our priority has always been Ashya's welfare".
He added: "Throughout Ashya's admission we have had conversations about the treatment options available to him, and we had offered the family access to a second opinion as well as assistance with organising treatment abroad."
British police officers are understood to be in Spain to question Ashya's parents.
Brett King defended the family's decision in a video posted online Hampshire Police's Assistant Chief Constable Chris Shead said he was aware the police's approach had led to a "significant amount of debate" but he would rather be criticised for "being proactive" than "potentially having to explain why a child has lost his life".
Simon Hayes, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, said: "Hampshire Constabulary's role, as in many other cases, was to safeguard the interests of a very vulnerable sick young child and find Ashya."
Ashya's grandmother Patricia King has accused the authorities of treating the couple "like murderers".
Patricia King earlier said her son was selling his holiday home in Spain to pay for proton beam therapy, which costs an average of £100,000 per person.
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