The eighth since the beginning of the year.. The death of detainee Muhammad Jumaa in “Abu Zaabal” prison

The detainee, Muhammad Jumaa, from Kafr Shukr, Qalyubia, was killed inside his prison cell in Abu Zaabal prison as a result of deliberate medical negligence and poor conditions of detention that lack the minimum human rights standards.

Last Wednesday, the martyr was transferred to Abu Zaabal prison, due to severe overcrowding and poor conditions of detention, as he was being held pending case 2094 of 2023 of the Supreme State Security.

The “Al-Shehab Center for Human Rights” held the Ministry of Interior of the coup government responsible for the death, and demanded an investigation into its circumstances, as well as the release of all detainees.

It is noteworthy that the victim is the eighth since the beginning of the year as a result of deliberate medical negligence and the tragic conditions of detention inside Sisi prisons, in which detainees do not receive their right to adequate health care, which turned them into graves for slow killing, according to the documentation of Eid by human rights organizations.

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On March 20, human rights organizations monitored the death of imprisoned parliamentarian Rajab Muhammad Abu Zaid in the new Wadi al-Natrun prison complex, after he was transferred to it after his health deteriorated as a result of poor detention conditions and medical negligence.

It was preceded by the day of the death of the detainee, Ramadan Youssef Ashry, as a result of a sudden heart attack, in light of the tragic conditions of detention in Al-Abadia prison in Damanhur, Al-Buhaira, as part of the series of crimes of the Sisi regime that does not fall under the statute of limitations.

The martyr is from the center of Abu Homs, Buhaira governorate, and has been detained since 2014. He is 50 years old. Human rights organizations held the Ministry of Interior of the coup government responsible, and demanded an investigation into the circumstances of death and the release of prisoners of conscience.

The detainee, Muhammad Mustafa Badawi Ahmed, was also martyred as a result of the deliberate medical negligence he was subjected to inside his prison cell in Wadi al-Natrun prison, where he was ill with kidney failure, and he did not obtain his right to the necessary medical care for his health condition, which caused his death as part of the series of crimes of the coup regime.

The martyr was arrested in February 2022, and he was subjected to a series of violations under conditions of detention that are not commensurate with his health condition, which is considered a crime of murder by refraining from providing adequate health care.

On March 4, human rights organizations documented the death of the 52-year-old detainee, Muhammad al-Sayyid al-Mursi, as a result of the violations and systematic torture he was subjected to inside the National Security building in Damietta since his arrest on February 21, according to sources close to his family in the series of crimes of the coup regime. military.

February martyrs

They were preceded by the death of the detainee, Saad Mahmoud Abdel-Ghani Khadr, treasurer of the Syndicate of Scientists in Dakahlia, on February 25, 2023, as a result of deliberate medical negligence he was subjected to while in prison in Burj Al-Arab prison.

The “Neighborhood Foundation for Rights and Freedoms” stated that the victim had been transferred to Al-Miri Hospital in Al-Raml, and his family searched for him, and they had not reached anything for about three months, and they were prevented from visiting him, until the prison called his family and informed them of his death.

She indicated that he has been detained for more than 8 years, and his son, Ahmed Saad, a student at the Faculty of Sharia and Law, has also been detained for more than 8 years.

On February 12, the detainee, Mahmoud Abd al-Shafi al-Didamoni, was killed inside his prison cell at the Zagazig police station in Sharkia Governorate, after his health deteriorated as a result of not receiving the necessary health care for his condition and the tragic conditions of detention that lack the lowest human rights standards.

Where he was suffering from cancer, and because he did not receive the necessary health and medical care at the right time and place, and because of the inhuman conditions of confinement, his health condition deteriorated until he was transferred from his prison in the Zagazig Police Station to the Zagazig General Hospital, and he died on Saturday inside it after suffering from illness and deliberate medical negligence. .

It is reported that he was working as a “blacksmith of Crital”, and he is from the village of Bani Amer, Zagazig Center, Sharkia Governorate, and he is 42 years old, and he was imprisoned pending report No. 2133 of 2021, the Zagazig Center, with accusations and allegations of a political nature.

Martyr in January

On January 27, 2023, the detainee, Sameh Tolba, Saleh Abdullah Al-Zeq, was martyred inside his prison cell at the Zagazig Police Station, after his health deteriorated as a result of the tragic detention conditions that lacked the lowest human rights standards.

A member of the Defense Authority for Prisoners of Conscience in Sharkia stated that the victim was 53 years old, and had been detained for a month inside the Zagazig police station, after the expiration of the two-year prison term without guilt.

Willful medical negligence

Recently, the “Al-Shehab Center for Human Rights” monitored, in its report “The Human Rights Landscape for 2022,” the rise of 40 citizens in prisons as a result of medical negligence, in light of the tragic conditions of detention that lack the minimum standards of safety and human health.

He explained that the increase in the number of deaths among political prisoners inside prisons and places of detention confirms that prisons and places of detention in Egypt are not prepared to hold people in accordance with international laws and conventions, and that they do not follow the minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners.

The report also points to the lack of medical care inside prisons and places of detention, and that clinics and hospitals inside prisons are not fully prepared and equipped to treat patients, in addition to the severe complications put in place by the prison administration to transfer detainees to clinics and hospitals, and the lack of readiness of medical staff inside prisons and places of detention to deal with patients.

He stated that during the past nine years, about 865 detainees died inside the various Egyptian detention facilities, including 40 citizens during the year 2022.

Martyrs at the end of 2022

The month of December 2022 witnessed the death of a number of detainees. On December 24, the detainee, Fathi Al-Najdi Salem, was martyred as a result of the medical negligence he was subjected to in the first department of Zagazig at the age of 59, and he is from the village of Al-Ghanimiya, Abu Kabir Center, Sharkia Governorate.

The Egyptian Network for Human Rights stated that the martyr was suffering from diabetes, and his health deteriorated two days before his death, and he was transferred to Zagazig General Hospital, where he breathed his last.

She added that his arrest had been rotated pending report No. 34052 of 2022, Zagazig Police Station, on November 24, despite obtaining a decision to release him and his poor health, and he was one of the victims of what is known as the “collected records,” one of the forms of violations and tampering with the law pursued by the coup authorities. extensively in the East.

Al-Najdi was preceded by the days of the rise of 3 martyrs, who are businessman Massad Tawfiq Al-Shafi’i, 62, from the village of Kafr Hakim, Kerdasa Center in Giza, who rose as a martyr inside his prison in Qanater prison, and was buried after Friday prayers in his hometown, in addition to two young men from Abu Kabir who received a ruling Unfair to 15 years in prison in the same comic case, and they are Ashraf Selmi, who rose inside his prison in Burj Al Arab prison, and Jihad Abdul Ghani, who rose in Badr prison after a struggle with cancer for more than two years, during which he was subjected to deliberate medical neglect and prevented from receiving treatment and medical care, which is a crisis for his condition.

Demands to save prisoners of conscience from death

For its part, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights submitted an official communication to the Public Prosecutor of the coup authority, Hamada El-Sawy, regarding the grave violations that amounted to premeditated murder, resulting from the deliberate medical killing carried out by the coup security militias against the political detainee Jihad Abdel-Ghany Mohamed Selim, 33 years old. .

In a statement issued by the network, following the death of the detainee, Jihad Abdul Ghani, inside Badr Prison, the network sounded the alarm about what is happening to political detainees in terms of slow killing and medical negligence.

In its statement, the network warned against the recurrence of deaths with other political detainees, as long as there is no conscience, prison oversight is absent, and those involved in the murder of Jihad Abdul Ghani were not punished, which amounts to premeditated murder.

And she called on the Public Prosecutor to open an immediate and urgent investigation to reveal those involved in the murder of the detainee, Jihad Abdel-Ghani, by preventing him from receiving appropriate treatment and medicine at the appropriate time and place, and holding him fully responsible for protecting sick political detainees, who suffer from the consequences and results of the policy of impunity.