Egyptian authorities prevent Mahmoud Hussein from visiting his father in intensive care

Lawyers of colleague Mahmoud Hussein, who is being held in Egyptian prisons, have applied to the Supreme State Security Prosecutor's Office to allow his client to visit his father, who is currently living in an arterial and stroke center, after suffering a stroke for the fifth time in a row since his son was arbitrarily detained.

A statement by the family of the colleague Mahmoud Hussein that his father Hajj Hussein Juma this time lost the ability to speak, swallowing and movement in general and was transferred to intensive care.

On September 15, the family of colleague Mahmoud Hussein filed a humanitarian petition with the head of the Prisons Authority and recalled medical papers proving the health of the sick father to enable his son to visit him. However, the staff refused to receive or even consider the petition.

Previous requests
According to Al-Jazeera correspondent Abdullah Hamed, Mahmoud Hussein, in a hearing on Monday (September 16th), asked the State Security Prosecutor to allow him to visit his father for one hour according to the regulations of the Prisons Authority. after a day.

Hadj Hussein Gomaa suffered the first stroke after visiting his son in Cairo Prison, an investigation in Tora Prisons because of the intolerance of seeing his son being held behind the walls of the prison and returned home, losing movement in the left apartment to remain since - more than two years - deprived of meeting with his eldest son, while Colleague Mahmoud Hussein is following his father's condition remotely with great concern.

In her statement, the family of colleague Mahmoud Hussein appealed to the Egyptian executive and legislative authorities, the National Council for Human Rights and Egyptian and non-Egyptian human rights organizations in solidarity with Banha in his request to allow him to visit his ailing father, to see him perhaps for the last time after having previously allowed similar cases of detainees and detainees to visit their relatives.

It is noteworthy that colleague Mahmoud Hussein Gomaa was released from the court in the case where he spent two and a half years of pre-trial detention (case 1152 of 2016), but the State Security Prosecution put his name in another case while in prison dating back to 2018, although he was Under remand in that period.