Abdul Rahman Mohammed - Al Jazeera Net
Egyptian political activist Esraa Abdel Fattah started a hunger and food strike, after renewing her detention by a state security prosecutor, according to human rights sources.
And last Sunday, the Egyptian Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to "renew" Israa's Abdel-Fattah detention for 15 days pending investigations that are underway with him and others, on the pretext of their participation in a terrorist group in achieving its objectives.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said that Israa announced that she had entered into a complete hunger strike, while considering the renewal of her imprisonment in case 488 of 2019, restricting the security of a country.
The defense committee for Isra Abdel-Fattah submitted a communication a few days ago to the Public Prosecutor, requesting that she be transferred to a public or private hospital after her first hunger strike, because of the violations he had suffered in the National Security Building before being transferred to the State Security Prosecution.
This is Israa's second strike, as she had started an open-ended hunger strike after she was kidnapped from the street on Saturday evening, October 12.
Several local and international human rights organizations announced their solidarity with Israa Abdel-Fattah, and demanded an investigation into the torture she was subjected to, according to what she announced after appearing in the State Security Prosecution days after her arrest.
In this context, the researcher and human rights activist Ahmed Al-Attar said that "Israa Abdel-Fattah decided to return to a full hunger strike in conjunction with the International Day for Human Rights, in protest against the illegal measures that took place with her, including beating her."
He pointed out in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net that the strike "is one of the most important silent, painful and striking means of suffering the detainees, and the detainee will not resort to it until after he loses hope in obtaining his rights guaranteed by the constitution and the law."
Al-Attar stressed the necessity of declaring full solidarity with Israa and other detainees on this day, in front of the Egyptian authorities' excesses, and asking them to stop the ongoing violations against the detainees.
Isra Abdel-Fattah is one of the most prominent aspects of the January 25, 2011 revolution, but she turned away from the limelight after the July 3, 2013 coup, and was not involved in any political activities in recent years.