Human rights and legal sources reported the death of politician Ali Hassan Buhairi in his detention camp in Gamasa prison in Egypt due to medical negligence.
The "We Record" human rights platform said that the detainee died after his health deteriorated and suffered a stroke due to medical negligence.
This brings the number of detainees who have died as a result of medical negligence since the beginning of 2020 to 59, according to the London-based human rights platform.
Egypt: The death of detainee No. 59 inside Egyptian prisons as a result of medical negligence.
Professor "Ali Hassan Buhairi," the former director of a school in the village of Basarta in Damietta governorate, passed away today in Mansoura Hospital after being transferred from Gamasa prison after his health condition deteriorated and suffered a stroke.
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Buhairi, 66, is a former headmaster of a school in Basarta, Damietta Governorate.
Usually, the Egyptian authorities reject the accusations of opponents and human rights defenders of prisoners ’medical neglect, and say that they provide care to detainees and deal with them in accordance with human rights laws.
And at the beginning of this month, human rights sources announced the death of 3 detainees in a number of Egyptian prisons during the past 24 hours, and the matter is related to Abdul Rahman Muhammad Zawal in Tora Prison, Subhi Al-Saqa in Burj Al Arab Prison in Alexandria, and Shaaban Hussein in Fayoum Prison.
Last month, the doctor and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Essam El-Erian, who was among the thousands arrested by the police after the July 3, 2013 coup, died, and remained in prison for nearly seven years until his death.