Ahmed Ramadan - Al-Jazeera Net
Egyptian human rights sources reported the death of a political detainee as a result of torture inside the headquarters of the National Security Agency in the city of Shebin El-Koum in the Nile Delta, bringing the number of victims of Egyptian prisons and detention centers to three people in just two days, after two other detainees died on Thursday.
The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms said that the arrested engineer, Hisham Abu Ali (from the Tala Center) died as a result of torture inside the headquarters of the National Security Agency in Shebeen El-Koum, Menoufia Governorate, noting that he had been forcibly disappeared for two weeks, before appearing on a case, and then re-disappeared. A few days later inside the headquarters of the device.
His family confirmed that one of the Ministry of Interior officers called her to receive his body, stressing that he was healthy and does not suffer from any disease before he was arrested by security officials two weeks ago.
The public prison of Zagazig had witnessed last Thursday morning, the death of the detainee Sobhi Fathi Abdel Samad Ramadan and his fame Sobhi Al-Banna (60 years), from the village of Kafr Abdel Nabi affiliated to the Minya al-Qamm Center in the Sharkia governorate north of Cairo, and was held in custody for more than a year, on the background His health deteriorated inside his detention facility.
Also, last Thursday afternoon, Borg Al Arab Prison in Alexandria witnessed another death case of citizen Hamdi Mohamed Abdo Hashim Abdel Bar, from Mashtul Al-Souk Center in Sharqia Governorate, who was sentenced to two years in prison, where his health condition deteriorated, and he was transferred to the prison hospital since The first week of his deportation, according to human rights sources.
The three add to the list of victims of Egyptian prisons and detention centers since the beginning of this year, which includes 14 others before them, for a total of 17 people, due to medical negligence in particular.
Thousands of political detainees in Egyptian prisons face the risk of death as a result of torture, intentional medical neglect, and the failure to provide any health care to them, according to reports by international human rights organizations who reported that prisons and detention facilities in Egypt since the coup of July 3, 2013, have turned into what looks like mass graves. , Given the unprecedented treatment and torture and physical and psychological torture practiced against opponents of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.