The political detainee, Atef al-Clicki, died inside the police station in Al-Qurain City, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt.
Sources reported that the detainee suffered medical negligence and inhuman prison conditions, and Egyptian security forces had arrested al-Clicki in late October 2017.
This death coincides with the uproar caused by the death of Mustafa Qassem, the Egyptian American, in his prison in Egypt, amid a wave of anger from international human rights bodies.
Egyptian human rights organizations called on the International Committee of the Red Cross to inspect prison conditions in Egypt, and to allow United Nations experts - led by the Special Rapporteur on the Prevention of Torture - to visit them.
In a joint statement, nine human rights organizations expressed grave concern over the escalating number of deaths in Egyptian prisons since the beginning of this year as a result of the continuing policy of denial of health care, the exacerbation of medical neglect for patients and the elderly, extreme intransigence and refusal to enter blankets and heavy clothes for detainees in this severe cold.
During the past days, four political detainees, including a woman, died in Egyptian prisons, and a criminal prisoner died while being held at the Luxor Police Station (southern Egypt) due to the deteriorating conditions of detention, in harsh weather conditions.