Leaked messages ... Egyptian detainees call on the world to save them from Corona

The detainees' appeals in Egypt's prisons continue through letters leaked to save them from the Corona virus, amid signs and fears of the spread of the disease among the detainees, who are already suffering from medical neglect and deprivation of medicines.

Activists on social media published a leaked message from Saad Al-Husseini - the former parliamentarian and the governor of Kafr El-Sheikh - from inside Tora prison, in which he confirmed that political prisoners in Scorpion face death handcuffed, no air, no sun, no medication, no doctor, no People, without food, without mercy.

He added in the message - which he wrote on paper - "About a week ago, symptoms began to appear on many of us, coughs, high temperatures, leaching and inflammation of the lungs, and a state of panic and terror spread among everyone, and everyone cared about writing his will, and we as we were six months ago did not We leave our rooms after depriving us of exercise to stay in these narrow rooms without ventilation, we have not seen the sun for six months, and no door opens for us, and no air enters us, without toiletries or disinfectants. "

"Our appeals to the prison administration and the officials to realize that before it was too late, were met with intentional and terrible disregard, and they did not move a finger; none of us was presented to a hospital, nor did a doctor come to see us or examine one of us, and a state of fear and terror prevailed among the officers and informants even the doctors," he said. Everyone is afraid to enter the wards or even talk to us. "

Al-Husseini stressed that the inspector of the detective in Scorpio Ahmed Abu Al-Wafa, and the chief of the investigation, Muhammad Shaheen, refused to meet with the detainees, and they refused to allow them to buy medicines, which increased the speed of the spread of the epidemic among them, amid ignoring and hiding from the Prison Authority and the media.

He concluded his message by saying, "After the regime canceled many court sessions so that the detainees do not leave the Scorpion Cemetery and no one hears them, we have found before us only to direct our cry and call for help to all human rights and medical organizations in the world, and everyone who believes in our right to life; this may be our last cry." : Save us, the Sisi regime kills us with Corona. "

Willful neglect
In turn, the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms published a leaked letter to one of the detainees, warning against the spread of severe cold symptoms among a number of detainees in Tora Prison, amid the complete absence of prison doctors who feared approaching the detainees, for fear of being infected with the emerging coronavirus.

"The officer, Muhammad Yahya, the head of the prison investigation, signed the detection of the suspected detainees by measuring the body temperature with an electronic device placed on the head," the coordination said in a post on its official page on the Facebook site.

The Coordination Committee quoted one of the detainees as saying that the device issues a fixed number for everyone, which is 35 degrees Celsius, and this means that the detainee who is afflicted with this temperature is "dead", in light of the severe neglect in providing health care to the detainees, which sparked panic among them, amid media neglect and was kept secret by the Ministry Interior or health to clarify whether there are cases between them or not.

On March 3, Egyptian human rights organizations called on the authorities to the necessity of the immediate and speedy release of detainees in Egyptian prisons for fear of the spread of Corona virus among prisoners.

In a joint statement, under the title "Save them", the organizations asked the Egyptian authorities to pay attention to the accumulation in prisons, as well as the lack of ventilation, and the low level of hygiene, with the presence of many chronic conditions, stressing that all of these matters may lead to a humanitarian disaster that is difficult to correct in These standards remain if only one case with this virus appears in prisons and police stations.

The signatory organizations are: Adalah Human Rights Foundation, Al-Shehab Center for Human Rights, Peace International for Human Rights Protection and Human Rights Monitor.

The organizations participating in the campaign announced their intention to send a set of official letters to urge the Egyptian government to release the prisoners, to be directed to the Public Prosecutor, the Supreme Judicial Council, the Presidency of the Republic, the National Council for Human Rights, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the World Health Organization, The International Committee of the Red Cross, the European Union, the European Parliament, as well as the African Union.