Abdel Rahman Mohamed - Cairo

Two new detainees died in Egyptian prisons yesterday, Wednesday, as a result of deliberate medical neglect and suffering from the cold and hunger, within less than a week of the death of a detained journalist.

According to human rights sources, the detainee Alaa El-Din Saad died inside his prison in Burj Al-Arab Prison, north of Cairo, where he was serving a 15-year prison sentence on political charges.

The sources reported that the detainee had a regular "cold", but that the prison administration's ignorance quickly aggravated his condition, as he continued to suffer from the lack of treatment or heating methods, and that he suffered a tremor that resulted in his death in his cell.

The 56-year-old detainee was working in the marine arsenal, and he is a resident of the Wardian area in Alexandria Governorate, and he has four children.

Human rights sources and local media revealed the death of Mahmoud Mohamed, 37, who was being held in Bandar Luxor police station, due to the deterioration of his health as a result of the cold.

The seventh day newspaper said that the prisoner died as a result of severe fatigue and a sharp drop in blood circulation, and his body was transferred to the morgue of Luxor International Hospital until he was brought to forensic medicine.

Last Saturday, arrested journalist Mahmoud Abdel-Majid Mahmoud Saleh died inside his prison cell in Tora Prison, a highly-guarded prison known as "Scorpio", as a result of deliberate medical neglect, cold and hunger.

Salma Ashraf, director of the Human Rights Monitor, says that prisons and places of detention in Egypt have become graves of those who are in them, pointing out that the authorities deliberately abuse detainees and detainees and work to subject them to slow death, by denying them treatment, medicine and clothing appropriate to different circumstances.

In her interview with Al-Jazeera Net, she considered following up the deaths in a short period due to diseases resulting from bad weather conditions, as clear evidence of the systematic intentional killing of the authorities towards the detainees.

Egyptian human rights stressed that the authorities represented by the current President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, officials of his Ministry of Interior, prison directors and its investigators, in addition to those involved in this intransigence of security men and doctors, are legally responsible for the deaths of more than nine hundred detainees over the past seven years, and their crimes will not be subject to statute of limitations.

Egyptian activists and human rights activists have launched the "Cold Pinch Scorpion" campaign that started Friday January 3 this year and lasts ten days, in solidarity with all detainees, especially Scorpion detainees, in light of the multiple violations they face, exacerbated by the cold winter and the harsh nature of the prison.

Human Rights Watch accused the Egyptian security services of persistently killing dissidents and detainees, by holding them in inhumane conditions and preventing the drug from being sick to them.

And at the beginning of last year, the "Adalah" Center issued a report entitled "How to treat a prisoner to death", indicating that the number of medical negligence cases inside prisons between 2016 and 2018 reached about 819 cases, and the most prominent diseases that the deceased suffered were cancer, kidney failure and fibrosis Hepatic.