Many times when he was allowed to speak before the courts, Brotherhood leader Issam Al-Erian complained about his lack of the treatment he needed, and talked about the death of many detainees as a result of the absence of medical care in prisons, before his turn came and he dies today and is added to hundreds of victims Medical negligence in Egyptian prisons.

Al-Erian spoke to the judge about himself as a model for cases of neglect of health care, explaining that he had contracted a C virus inside prison and requested permission to be treated at the Liver Institute, but a prison official informed him that National Security refused to send him to the hospital.

Al-Erian, who was a doctor and served as vice president of the Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, was among the thousands who were arrested by the police following the July 2013 coup to remain in prison for nearly seven years until his death today.

Over a period of seven years and since the military coup on July 3, 2013, the series of deaths of opponents of the coup began in Egyptian prisons and detention facilities and their annexes, including hospitals and deportation cars, for various reasons, most notably medical negligence and torture, and this series continues.

Human rights organizations and activists have worked to document these cases, record their data and monitor them in a successive manner. These cases, according to human rights activists, reflect a clear disregard by the Egyptian authorities for the lives of these detainees, and may even indicate a kind of intentional disposal of them by ignoring all appeals and demands to address the causes that lead to the increase in deaths in Egyptian prisons.

The lists of the deceased in the Egyptian detention facilities and prisons included political figures, the most prominent of which was President Mohamed Morsi, the first elected president after the January 2011 revolution, parliamentarians and party leaders, in addition to dozens of citizens who were arrested on the grounds of being accused of participating in anti-regime activities and belonging to opposition entities. Banned and deemed illegal.

Among the first to be documented were their deaths while in custody, 38 opponents died due to suffocation as a result of teargas canisters thrown into a deportation vehicle that was transporting them to prison on August 18, 2013, after which the detainees' deaths followed, until the last documented case on July 30. 2020, which is Dr. Saeed Abu Zeid, who died in Wadi al-Natrun Prison.

Ongoing documentation

Various human rights organizations have documented the names and circumstances of the deaths of political detainees and others since the military coup, including the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Shehab, the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, Human Rights Monitor, and others, as well as the efforts of independent human rights activists.

The estimates of a number of those bodies - the details of which the Al-Jazeera Net correspondent discussed - ranged between 840 and 890 cases, which were documented in detail, most of them were anti-regime politicians, and also included criminal prisoners.

According to these estimates, the prisons that witnessed the most deaths of detainees are: Tora Investigation Prison and Tora 1 High Security Prison (known as Aqrab) in the Tora Prisons Complex, followed by Burj Al Arab Prison in Wadi Al Natroun, in addition to police detention facilities, foremost among which are governorate police departments. Eastern.

According to human rights organizations, Sharkia governorate was at the forefront of the governorates in which detainees died during those years, followed by Cairo governorate, while the documentation indicates the death of a political detainee, Mrs. Maryam Salem.

These documents showed that 2015 was the year that witnessed the most deaths of detainees, as it exceeded - according to one of the organizations documented - 185 deaths, while the lowest was in 2019, which amounted to nearly 55 deaths, noting that the organizations did not aim to document the affiliations of those cases, and only documented the reasons Arrest them.

Among the cases that have been documented:

1- Abd al-Jayed Muhammad Mahmoud (67 years old), died on 26 June 2013 in Assiut General Prison, as a result of medical negligence.

2- Safwat Khalil Shaboura (58 years old), died on September 27, 2013, in Mansoura General Prison as a result of medical negligence.

3- Muhammad al-Sayed Ghazlani (60 years old), died on February 5, 2014 as a result of medical negligence in Tora prison, where he was suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, heart and liver.

4- Tariq Mahmoud al-Ghandour (53 years), died on November 12, 2014, when he suffered a severe bleeding in his esophagus inside the hospital, which led to his being in a coma in Shebin al-Kom Prison Hospital, after he was transferred to her from his detention facility in Wadi al-Natrun Prison.

5- Mohsen Muhammad al-Sayed Shata (25 years), died on March 17, 2015, and the Ministry of Interior said that he had committed suicide in his detention facility in Kafr El-Sheikh.

6- The leader of the Brotherhood and former parliamentarian Farid Ismail Abdel Halim (58 years), died on May 13, 2015, and died as a result of medical negligence inside Al-Manial University Hospital (Al-Qasr Al-Aini), and was held in Tora high-security prison (Scorpion).

7- Nabil al-Maghribi (74 years), the oldest political prisoner in Egypt, died on June 4, 2015 as a result of medical negligence, as he contracted cancer inside his detention facility in Scorpion Prison, and died in El Manial University Hospital.

8- The leader of the Islamic Group, Muhammad Essam al-Din Derbala (58 years), died on August 9, 2015 in Scorpion prison, as a result of medical negligence.

9- Rabei Muhammad Abdel Qader (45 years), died as a result of medical negligence on December 25, 2016, in Fayoum General Hospital.

10- Ismail Ibrahim Mustafa (59 years), died on May 28, 2017 as a result of medical negligence at Zagazig University Hospital, to which he was transferred after a complete deterioration in his health inside his prison in a number of sections of Sharkia governorate.

11- The former guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Mahdi Akef (89 years), died on September 22, 2017 in Al-Qasr Al-Aini Hospital, as a result of medical negligence, after his transfer from Tora Liman Prison.

12- Naji Muhammad Hamed Yunus (60 years old), died on June 8, 2018, in Mansoura University Hospital after he was transferred to it after his health deteriorated due to medical negligence in his prison.

13- Ahmed Abdul Aziz Abdul-Ghani (48 years), died on March 18, 2019 as a result of a hepatic coma, in Damanhour General Hospital in Al-Buhaira governorate, after he was transferred to it from Abadiya prison.

14- Jumah Muhammad Hasan Junaidi, died on June 9, 2019, as a result of a severe heart attack after tear gas was fired inside Tora Reception Prison.

15- Former President Mohamed Morsi, died on June 17, 2019 as a result of medical negligence, during his trial session in the so-called communication case.

16- Mrs. Maryam Salem, died on 22 December 2019 in Qanater prison, as a result of medical negligence.

17- Director Shady Habash, died on May 2, 2020, in Tora prison, as a result of medical negligence.

18- Saeed Ghobashi (53 years old), died on June 29, 2020 in Gamasa high-security prison, as a result of medical negligence.

19- The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Omar Abdel-Ghani, died on July 26, 2020 in the Awal Zagazig Police Station, as a result of medical negligence.

20- Saeed Mahmoud Abu Zaid, died on July 30, 2020, in the cradle of the liver in Shebin al-Kom, as a result of medical negligence after he was transferred to her from Wadi al-Natrun prison.