Abdul Rahman Mohammed - Al Jazeera Net
She was satisfied with a few dates by breaking her fast, as the appetite did not help her for more than that, even after more than 15 hours of fasting, so how does she like the food after she learned from the deprivation of her husband and fellow absentees behind bars from the previous day.
She continues to turn her senses without eating it, while she recalls in her memory the stages of her repeated suffering during preparing breakfast for her husband and 20 of his companions in the dungeon of a Tora complex in Cairo, which begins preparing him for a whole day, then "bagging it" and freezing it at night, and ends with an anticipation of her role in the hot sun All day in front of the prison door.
Usually, that suffering is dispelled, after she receives - in special ways - letters of gratitude and appreciation from her husband and his cellmates, but the matter differed this time, when I learned that after that suffering, the food did not reach her husband and his companions, and they were forced to eat prison meals that the animals recover as well About humans.
Not only is the breakfast not reaching the detainees in many cases, according to what Asma (a pseudonym) of Abu Salma's wife stated, since the decision to halt the visits taken by the Prison Authority as part of the precautionary measures against the Corona virus, the Ministry of Interior prevented the entry of most of the supplies and needs even Necessary ones.
Despite allowing, with the start of Ramadan, the introduction of meals for breakfast and suhoor in some prisons, the hopes of the families of the detainees were disappointed to delight their families with those meals, when they found the matter confined to specific items that are not counted on the fingers of one hand, in light of the complete prohibition of the introduction of fruits, vegetables, sweets and most drinks.
Other forms
While the mother of Amira, the wife of a detainee in one of the prisons in the governorates of Upper Egypt, enumerates other forms of suffering, the limited food items approved, including rice and pasta, are only allowed in bags, and the families are forced to wait for a period of not less than 4 hours during the day before receiving Those foods.
The wife of the detainee sees - in her talk to Al-Jazeera Net - that the clear goal of this method is "insulting and disturbing" and filling the souls of the detainees and their families with feelings of discontent and anger, pointing out that a section of prison officers and guards shows a state of recovery while practicing these methods.
And she pointed out that, besides that, despite the words of sympathy repeated by the families of the detainees, some prison guards deliberately mix the foods while inspecting them in a way that corrupts them, and after that all the food is sometimes not delivered to the detainees despite receiving it.
The suffering of the families of the detainees was clearly represented in the image of Dr. Laila Suef, the mother of activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, as she brushes the floor in front of the prison door, waiting for her to enter a written letter and a dry solution for her hunger striker for more than a month, which necessitated a wide state of interaction and sympathy on social media.
Mona (Alaa's sister), who posted her mother's photo, asked: Is it normal for her mother to wait days and hours at the prison door in order to introduce "a speech and a solution of drought"? Does the public prosecutor know what is happening in front of prisons and the conditions of the detainees on hunger strike?
Mona, in a later post, reserved reservations on saying that the motive of sympathy for her mother as a university teacher is stressing that she is not supposed to be subjected to any mother while she is seeking to check on her detained son, noting that there are many mothers who are subjected to "various forms of imprisonment" From misguidance, disgust and inhumanity. "
Recklessness and indifference,
and a detainee inside one of the prisons reveals to Al-Jazeera Net reporter a case of "recklessness and indifference" in which the prison administration deals with breakfast and sahur that the families work to bring to the detainees ’families, as part of it is confused and lack of scrutiny in its delivery to their owners, which deprives many detainees From their food.
Despite stopping visits and preventing the introduction of most needs and supplies, this did not prevent the prison administration from increasing the search campaigns for the wards and cells, which, according to the source, affected the spirituality of the holy month in which detainees were patient with what they suffered in prison.
According to this detainee, the Ministry of Interior sells vegetables and meat to detainees inside prisons at fair prices, which increases the financial burden on the detainees' families.
In this context, Khalaf Bayoumi, director of the "Al-Shehab" Center for Human Rights, confirms that the suffering of detainees and their families increased significantly in Ramadan due to the insistence of the Prison Authority not to allow food to enter properly for the circumstance of fasting, as well as intransigence in the introduction of medicines in addition to continuing to prevent exercise in a number other than Few prisons.
Bayoumi indicated - during his talk to Al Jazeera Net - that the world's preoccupation with the Corona epidemic and its impact negatively affected the attention and follow-up of the conditions of detainees and their families, which is exploited by the security authorities and pushes them to further restrict and intransigence against prisoners.
In this context, he stressed the importance of advocacy campaigns for detainees, and believes that in Ramadan it became "an obligation and a duty for all", especially with the spread of the Corona epidemic, which threatens all prisoners due to the severe accumulation in prisons and the scarcity of medicines and prevention.
The director of the Al-Shehab Center pointed out the importance of this being through organized human rights and popular campaigns, and working to promote and spread them widely so that they bear fruit and represent pressure on the system, in addition to communicating with international bodies to inform them of the situation inside prisons and detention facilities.