Khalil Mabrouk - Istanbul

The torches and lights of the lights that shone at night in the Turkish city of Istanbul shed a spotlight on the reality of political detainees in Egyptian prisons, and released a spark of hope that the families of those detainees insist on sticking to them despite the complexity of the Egyptian scene.

Thousands of Turks and Arabs participated Wednesday night in a mass rally that was launched from the Fatih Mosque in Istanbul on the occasion of the International Day for Human Rights, which the world celebrates on the tenth of December every year.

A large number of the relatives of the detainees, their families and their solidarity with the Turks participated - and with the support of many non-governmental organizations, federations and professional unions - holding banners and chanting slogans calling for the release of these detainees and preventing their execution by the regime there.

The demonstrators also uploaded pictures of the late President Mohamed Morsi, who died during his trial session in light of the successive international reports indicating the need to investigate the possibility of his killing due to conditions of detention and medical neglect.

A participant in the march called Turkay Ozlam said that she is constantly following all events in Egypt, and that the whole world should bear its humanitarian responsibility towards the detainees exposed there.

The protesters raised the photos of the late President Mohamed Morsi and demanded that the injustice be removed from the detainees (Al-Jazeera)

Permanent mobility
In response to a question by Al-Jazeera Net about the seasonal nature of solidarity partnerships with political detainees, she made it clear that before that she participated in a large number of sit-ins and strikes aimed at delivering their voice to the world.

Al-Mashael's march comes as an extension of an international campaign launched by human rights organizations on the sixth of this month under the title "Freedom is a Right" to raise awareness of the conditions of detainees in Egyptian prisons, in an attempt to prevent their killing by torture, medical neglect, bad conditions or executions, according to the organizers.

According to the campaign organizers, thousands of scientists, teachers and students of all levels of education, lawyers, doctors, politicians, artists and engineers are subjected to torture and cruel treatment in these prisons, and they enter into hunger strikes to protest their intolerable situation.

The event organizers also confirm that they want to display the accurate details of the detainees ’conditions in front of international bodies, including the conditions of isolating them in cells in inhuman conditions, denying them access to their lawyers, and extracting their legal rights to fair litigation.

Egyptian political activists and trade unionists who participated in the march pointed out that one of its goals is to deliver a clear message to the detainees in Egypt and their families that these activists will continue to carry their case and defend them in every platform until they are released.

Al-Hofy: These events mark the beginning of a massive campaign (Al-Jazeera)

Message to Egypt
The union leader, Ahmed Rami Al-Hofy, told Al-Jazeera Net that these activities represent the beginning of a wide campaign that will extend its impact far beyond the International Human Rights Day.

He pointed out that the great momentum and wide participation of the Turks in the march confirms the international community’s devotion to the issue of freedoms in Egypt, and the issue of the detainees there out of the local dimension, to global dimensions that are not hidden to anyone.

Al-Hofy explained that Istanbul's torches will not be the last end of the movement supporting the detainees in his country, stressing that the activities will continue in every place his family chose to champion the file of freedoms and rights in Egypt.

In his view, the steadfastness of detainees in Egypt and their families continues to give activists around the world the impetus and motivation to continue working and active in defending their cases.

Rights reports indicate that more than sixty thousand detainees on political background are still held in Egyptian prisons out of a total of 109,000 detainees, as this year witnessed the largest detention campaigns in September during the authorities ’preparedness there to deal with the waves of demonstrations called by the Egyptian contractor Mohamed Ali.

Reports also show that the number of prisons in Egypt reached 68, including 26 opened since the current president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, in power in 2014.