The former presidential candidate, Abdel Moneim Abul-Fotouh, filed a lawsuit against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, due to the continuing violations that he is subjected to in prison.
Besides Al-Sisi, the lawsuit also included the Attorney General, the Minister of Interior and the Assistant Minister of Interior for the Prisons Authority sector, as well as the warden of the Agriculture Prison in which Aboul Fotouh, head of the Strong Egypt Party, is imprisoned.
The lawsuit included the violations against the prominent Egyptian politician, chiefly solitary confinement without legal justification, his banning from the prison library, subscribing to newspapers, inserting books, and exercising in the sun, as well as preventing him from Friday prayers in the prison mosque, phone calls and correspondence with his family, as well as On preventing him from natural treatment, and introducing a small refrigerator at his expense to store medicines, despite all of this being regulated by the Prisons Law and its regulations.
The Egyptian authorities have arrested Abul-Fotouh since February 2018, pending investigations, and he continued to be imprisoned until now, in clear violation of the Egyptian law that specifies the maximum period of pretrial detention for those in his condition for only two years.
Throughout his detention, the prison administration insists on placing him in solitary confinement, despite the fact that the Prisons Law considers solitary confinement as a punishment that may not exceed 30 days.
Abul-Fotouh was arrested after an interview with Al-Jazeera, in which he criticized the deteriorating political and economic conditions in Egypt.
In an audio recording leaked by activists, Sisi described Abu al-Fotouh as an extremist brother, and expressed his fear of taking over the rule of Egypt, in an interview with Yasser Rizk, editor-in-chief of the government newspaper Al-Akhbar who was ousted from his post yesterday, even though he had been close to Sisi for years. The last few.
It is noteworthy that Abul-Fotouh is one of the most prominent Egyptian politicians since he was president of the Student Union at the university stage.
After his resignation from the Muslim Brotherhood, he founded the Strong Egypt Party after the January 2011 revolution, and competed for the post of President of the Republic and garnered about 4 million votes.
Then he rejected the military coup that Sisi led when he was defense minister against President-elect Mohamed Morsi in the summer of 2013, which led to him and his party leaders being subjected to arrest campaigns and media distortion.