Abdel Rahman Mohamed - Cairo
It was not a few days after the announcement of the death of political detainee Maryam Salem in an Egyptian prison, until a sign denouncing the incident appeared on the list of the highest-circulated social media sites in Egypt.
The "Al-Sisi_Mariam_Mariam" marker came second on the list, which was launched after the death of the detainee Maryam in Al-Qanater prison for women as a result of deliberate medical negligence, according to human rights sources.
Through the marking, Egyptian activists interacted with angry tweets, and held Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi responsible for Maryam's death, noting that she is not the first woman to be killed by the Egyptian regime, but she is the first woman to die in prison as a result of medical neglect.
While the singers reviewed the suffering of other women inside and outside the Egyptian prisons, some of them expressed their fear that others would become the same fate if they did not move against the regime’s excesses against them and work to release them and provide their necessary needs.
A number of the tweeters mentioned Mariam's story and the reason for her arrest, noting the suffering she and her family went through, the most recent of which was to extract her two-year-old child from her and place him in an orphanage, as the rest of his family is also in detention.
A number of the tweeters said that "imprisonment to death" has become a method for the Egyptian authorities and does not differentiate between men and women, and some of them said that what happened to Mary was caused by political rivalry, and if his imprisonment was due to another reason, the situation did not reach that.
Maryam is not the first victim of Sisi, but she is the first detainee to die inside the prison. # Sisi_May_Maryam pic.twitter.com/5FYV2bcoNK - Silence of the volcano (@ maromiro7910) December 23, 2019 |
# Al-Sisi_Mariam |
The judge is unjust |
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Imprisonment to death has become the most used tool in the last days of the coup. No distinction has been made between a man or a woman .. And when God meets opponents # Sisi_My_Mariam pic.twitter.com/qZng3WlXA2 - Ali Al-Skoubi (@ Ali_Elaskopy1) December 23, 2019 |
The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms and the director of the Al-Nadim Center, Aida Saif Al-Dawla, reported Sunday the death of a Sinai woman named Maryam Salem, 32, in her prison in Al-Qanater prison, north of Cairo, in an incident considered the first of its kind since the summer of 2013.
In a statement on Monday, the Women Against the Coup movement expressed its strong condemnation of what happened to Maryam, who had died as a result of a deliberate medical negligence by the administration of the Qanater prison, in collusion with the Ministry of the Interior, in a systematic and clear series of abuse of female detainees in prisons.
Human rights organizations say the number of political detainees in Egypt has exceeded 60,000 since the army overthrew late President Mohamed Morsi on July 3, 2013, but the authorities deny these numbers, saying that prisons only include prisoners by judicial orders.
Human Rights Watch accused the Egyptian security services of "failing to kill dissidents and detainees by holding them in inhumane conditions and preventing the drug from being sick to them."
Last January, the Adalah Center released a report entitled "How do you treat a prisoner to death?" He pointed out that the number of cases of medical negligence in prisons between 2016 and 2018 amounted to about 819 cases, and the most prominent diseases suffered by the deceased were cancer, kidney failure and cirrhosis.