Abdel Rahman Mohamed-Cairo

Cairo University's engineering professor Essam Hashish has asked the Scorpion Prison Department, currently detained, to allow him to buy a shroud at his own expense "in preparation for meeting his Lord," human rights sources said.

Hashish, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, said the claim was justified by the "deterioration of his health" and that the Scorpion Prison Administration deliberately neglected his health and sought to kill him slowly.

Activists on social networking sites launched a campaign of solidarity with Issam Hashish, launched a marking (#Save_Assam_Hashish), and demanded his immediate release due to his health conditions, recalling what is being circulated about the slow killing of detainees in Egyptian prisons.

Some questioned: Is it acceptable to tolerate such abuses, waiting for the death of detainees one after another? Many students of Hashish evoke stories of his genius and his academic ability and scientific prominence in his field.

Isam Hashish is a communications professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University. He was born in 1955 in Gharbia Governorate (North Cairo). He was awarded the University Encouragement Award in 2004. He was chosen as the ideal professor at Cairo University in 2005. He carried out pioneering engineering projects. And supervised about fifty scientific theses at home and abroad.

Hashish was arrested in 1981 and 1995, then arrested in connection with the events of Al-Azhar University on charges of money laundering, and sentenced to three years.

Following the military coup on July 3, 2013, Issam Hashish was arrested from 6th of October City in Giza Governorate.

#Isam_Hashish asks the Scorpion Prison Administration to allow him to buy a shroud at his own expense in preparation for meeting his Lord #Sav_Assam_Hashish
Moved from the page of Prof. Salah Ezz

Prof. Essam Hashish, Professor of Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and a leader in the group ... https://t.co/Vjz88UDQGp

- Amr Darrag (@amr_darrag) August 26, 2019

Urgent .. Dr. Essam Hashish, professor of engineering in Cairo and detained in Scorpion Prison asks the prison administration to buy a shroud at his own expense in preparation for meeting his Lord in order to deteriorate his health as a result of deliberate negligence and slow killing.

Talk to him, spread it by God on you
#Saved_Assam_Hashish pic.twitter.com/6xl7uKEXRm

- As Shok (@Moslemwaftaker) August 25, 2019

O black day! We are Hnstna when they die Nefer Nefer !! https://t.co/VWo2AdhHXJ# Save_Assam_Hashish

- Mona Seif (@Monasosh) August 25, 2019

#Save_Assam_Hashish
Sorry my good teacher we could not prevent harm and injustice about you ... we could not respond part of the beautiful what taught us and learned generations of electronics and communications engineering - cairo university ... we could not stop the hands of oppressive tyrants about you nor ... https://t.co/ KRlkks7BN3

- Dr. Ala Ruba (@Alaa_Elrouby) August 26, 2019

Dr. Essam Hashish, a professor of engineering in Cairo who is detained in Scorpion Prison, asks the prison administration to buy a shroud at his own expense, due to his deteriorating health condition and his refusal to be shrouded with Egyptian blood.
Deliberate negligence and slow killings are the policy of the Egyptian authorities to liquidate political detainees. #Save_Assam_Hashish pic.twitter.com/c0OtRvMM30

- Magda Mahfouz (@magdaMahfouzeg) August 25, 2019

Dr. Essam Hashish, a professor of engineering in Cairo, asked the Prisons Authority to buy a shroud at his expense to deteriorate his health.

Dr. Essam Cairo Engineering Icon and all the graduates of the college in the pre-Sisi era knowing his popularity and the love of people Les https://t.co/byh4iJSVFN

- Amr Amr (@Amrevich) August 25, 2019

Lack of hope

The director of the Shehab Center for Human Rights, Khalaf Bayoumi, considered Hashish's request as evidence of the extent of the abuses suffered by detainees in Egypt and revealed the extent of the suffering they complain of.

He also said in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that this demand reveals the lack of detainees any glimmer of hope in the improvement of prison conditions or change, and that evidence added to hundreds of previous evidence condemning the Egyptian regime and its security institutions.

Since the beginning of this year, about 18 detainees have died in prisons, according to human rights sources, the latest of which was Musharraf, who died last Thursday, inside his prison in Borg al-Arab prison, due to medical negligence, bringing the number of detainees who died for the same reason since the military coup 693 detainees .

Previously, a number of Brotherhood leaders and members died inside the prison due to medical negligence; most notably former President Mohamed Morsi, former General Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef, Abdel Azim Sharkawi, Farid Ismail, Mohamed Al Falahji and Tarek El Ghandour.