Medical neglect in prisons

The undersigned organizations warn that prominent opposition politician Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh will soon meet the grim fate of former president Mohamed Morsi, unless there is immediate intervention to put an end to pervasive medical neglect in Egypt’s prisons; a practice that has become, in effect, a prolonged death sentence inflicted in retaliation for political opposition. As a result of the Egyptian authorities’ deliberate denial of vital medical treatment, Aboul-Fotouh’s health has sharply declined and he now…

Joint Statement The death of former president Mohamed Morsi exposes one of the Egyptian government’s cruelest forms of political retaliation: prolonged medical neglect in prison with the aim of inflicting a slow death upon opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Morsi is not the first and will likely not be the last victim: other prisoners face a similar demise as long as there remains no oversight in Egyptian prisons, enabling systematic and severe violations including torture, the denial of even minimally adequate…

The undersigned rights organizations strongly condemn the practice of intentional medical neglect in Egyptian prisons and detention facilities. The medical neglect of Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul –Fotouh, the head of the opposition party Strong Egypt, is just one of many cases amounting to a slow death sentence, a further escalation in reprisals against political dissidents. Although Aboul-Fotouh has suffered from four heart attacks in less than three months, the Tora Prison administration refuses to transfer him to a hospital for…

Update: Yucef released on the 29th of November 2010. Update: Prosecution extends Yucef's detention 15 more days. Journalist and activist Yucef Shabaan was supposed to present today in front of the magistrate of appeal to decide upon his release or extension of his administrative detention. On Friday the 19th of November 2010 the Raml prosecution in Alexandria had ordered the detention of Shabaan for 4 days.. By law this decision should have expired today at 2.30 p.m. and Shabaan should have been released. But Yucef did not…