The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms confirmed that the political detainee Ahmed Fathi, known as "Ahmed Amer", died in his prison, "Tora Investigation" prison, after he was infected with the new Corona virus "Covid-19".
A coordination statement said that Amer was detained in connection with case 1175 of 2018, and he is 51 years old.
On Saturday, Eng. Ahmed Youssef died while in custody in the Department of the First Tenth of Ramadan, northeast of Cairo, after he was infected with the Corona Virus, where he was transferred to Belbeis isolation hospital after his condition deteriorated and the hospital administration refused to receive him because there was no place.
There is no accurate count on the number of deaths and injuries among the detainees as a result of the security blackout, but the Egyptian authorities prevented visits and entry of drugs, sterilizers and medical supplies for the detainees for several months, and they rejected local human rights appeals for the release of the detainees for fear of the spread of the Corona virus among them.
The pro-regime journalist Ahmed Moussa, through one of his programs, called for refusing to treat the Muslim Brotherhood infected with Coronavirus, as "traitors and not human beings," calling for their expulsion from the country.
According to the Egyptian Coordination of Rights and Freedoms, 39 detainees died in the first section of the tenth of Ramadan after they showed symptoms of the virus, but a doctor brought to the police station diagnosed the cases as being infected with the regular seasonal flu virus.
The Egyptian Coordination Committee for Rights and Freedoms called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release all detainees and enforced disappearances, especially after the spread of the Corona virus, and the existence of many suspected cases among the detainees, and the absence of any medical care or preventive medical support against the disease.
The Department of the First Police Department, El-Mahalla El-Kubra, north of Cairo, transferred three detainees to El-Mahalla General Hospital after symptoms of Corona virus infection appeared, coinciding with the death of the second detainee in the department during a period of less than a week.
The three detainees who were transferred to the hospital after their health conditions deteriorated, were Yasser al-Husseini, Muhammad Fathi al-Baghdadi and Ali Maher Hammad.
The prisoner, Hassan Ziada, the undersecretary of the Muslim Generation School in Tanta, on June 7, breathed his last breath, tied with iron bracelets, “Al-Kalbash”, at Al-Mahalla General Hospital, after he was suspected of being infected with the new Corona virus, “Covid-19 ″, after he was infected in ward 3” in the department. The first police of Al-Mahalla Al-Kubra and the department administration refused to treat him or isolate the injured until his health deteriorated.
In turn, activist Mona Saif Frequency confirmed news about the emergence of new cases of coronavirus in Tora Prison, as a result of the infection being transmitted to the detainees by an employee named Sayed Hijazi who died of the virus.
She pointed out that the situation of prisoners in all Egyptian prisons witnessed a major blackout by the authorities after the banning of visits last March, in light of the authority's insistence that thousands of detainees remain in prison "without the necessity of holding them."
She emphasized that the Egyptian authorities insist on dealing with the Corona crisis with "a dull security mindset and hated for science", not with a mindset aware of the size of the problem and its health, social and humanitarian consequences and its extended impact on the future of each individual in society.
Mona Seif said in a post on her Facebook page that it is not the first time that news has caused panic about the spread of Corona in Egypt's prisons, and the people remain in terror between suspicion and certainty about the authenticity of the news, but it is the first time that specific details appear, which forced The Ministry of Interior to issue a statement of the death of the prison employee with the virus.
The activist whose brother, the activist Alaa Saif, is in prison, confirmed that the prisoners are all in real danger. "Neither the Prime Minister nor the Minister of Health cares about prisons, nor does the public prosecutor in his turn investigate the accumulated reports and appeals, nor do the judges release the hundreds who are brought before them." In hearings on paper only, there is no real offer in clear violation of the law. "
She said that the people in charge of the prisons administration do not care about the prisoners and are intransigent in entering basic health and hygiene supplies to face the corona anywhere, while the National Security Agency continues to ship more citizens and place them in prisons, while tightening its grip and preventing any news or information from leaving it, and by expanding the area Repeated violations until they become "normal" and "acceptable".
Saif called for reassuring the families of the detainees against their families, achieving direct communication with them, and allowing the introduction of hygiene and sterilization tools, medicines and vitamins without any urgent intransigence, then starting to remove the largest possible number of prisoners, provided that the priority is for the elderly, those with sick history or those suffering from The fragility of their health.