51 rights groups urge Egyptian authorities to ensure immediate and urgent access to life-saving medical care. Dr.
Salah Sultan, 63, said in a leaked letter that authorities in Badr 1 prison, east of Cairo, denied him proper health care. Sultan lived and worked in the United States for more than a decade before his arrest in Egypt in September 2013. An Egyptian court sentenced Soltan to life in prison in September 2017 in a mass trial that witnessed "severe violations of fair trial standards and due process"