Abdul Rahman Mohammed - Al Jazeera Net
The family of the Egyptian detainee, Aya Kamal Al-Din Hussein and human rights activists, expressed their fears of the deterioration of her health, nearly a month after her arrest without allowing her to visit her or know her news.
Aya Kamal El Din (25 years) was arrested by Egyptian security forces from her home on March 24, after an unidentified actress Badriya Talabeh submitted a report accusing Aya of posting his blog entry on Facebook criticizing the state’s handling of the Corona virus spread.
According to human rights sources, a verse was hidden at the State Security headquarters eight days before it was brought before the State Security Prosecution early this month on a repeated charge against those expressing positions opposing the current authority, which is "joining a banned group and spreading false news."
From then on, Aya's family continues to suffer without results in its endeavors to reach and check on it, as they were not allowed to visit it, nor was it permitted to enter clothes, food, or medicine for her, as well as necessary and personal supplies.
A source from the family of the detainee stated that one of the security sources revealed to them that a verse is being transferred to the hospital due to the deterioration of her health as a result of the hunger strike, in addition to having pneumonia, and she suffers from shortness of breath.
Al-Jazeera Net communicated with Kamal Al-Din Hussein, the father of the arrested woman, Aya. He said that his daughter had completed about a month since her arrest without her family member seeing her or knowing her news, expressing his concerns for her life, in light of insisting on preventing them from visiting her or knowing her news.
In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, he stressed that all of the accusations leveled against him were "incorrect and lacking any evidence", and that the security authorities and the investigation authorities could not prove any of these charges.
He pointed out that the information leaked to them reveals her exposure to violations, pointing out that when asked about her health, they were asked for an amount of 1300 pounds (about eighty dollars) in order to conduct a corona virus examination.
He added that the visit is prohibited from her, and she is being held incommunicado in the Alexandria Security Directorate.
The militarization of Egypt
In this context, Human Rights Watch director Salma Ashraf said that Aya Kamal al-Din, despite her presentation to the prosecution, is still considered to be forcibly disappeared, as no one was allowed to meet her and check on her condition.
In her interview with Al-Jazeera Net, she considered that this is a natural outcome of the continued absence of the principle of accountability, and the militarization of the Egyptian state in which justice was absent and made all decisions in the hands of the security services.
"We strongly fear for her safety and health, especially in light of the spread of the Corona virus, and we do not know whether she is being subjected to torture or any ill-treatment. Indeed, it is proven that she was deprived of all her legal rights, and nobody knows anything about it."
Salma Ashraf stressed that "the arrest and concealment of a verse in this arbitrary manner cannot continue, as it opens the way for the matter to be repeated with the thousands of Egyptian girls who are accused of fabricated charges."
Human rights activists have documented the arrest of more than 2,500 women between 2013 and 2017, and the inclusion of more than 150 Egyptians on terrorist lists until the end of 2018, while the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory said that five Egyptian prisons for women do not enjoy the minimum standards of human life.