Political Detainees in Egypt’s Scorpion prison are denied blankets and forced to sleep on the floor during the winter. Their families were banned from entering warm clothing to them, leaving tens of thousands of detainees suffering in the cold winter weather and exacerbating existing medical conditions. Security forces raid their cells to strip them of many of their clothes and personal belongings and deny them visits by their families.
On Saturday January 4th journalist Mahmoud Abdel Majid Mahmoud, 47, died inside the Scorpion prison after being denied medical care and suffering from the cold and hunger. As his condition ...
Political Detainees in Egypt’s Scorpion prison are denied blankets and forced to sleep on the floor during the winter. Their families were banned from entering warm clothing to them, leaving tens of thousands of detainees suffering in the cold winter weather and exacerbating existing medical conditions. Security forces raid their cells to strip them of many of their clothes and personal belongings and deny them visits by their families.
On Saturday January 4th journalist Mahmoud Abdel Majid Mahmoud, 47, died inside the Scorpion prison after being denied medical care and suffering from the cold and hunger. As his condition deteriorated prison authorities ignored his and his cellmates’ cries for help and left him to die.
In despair and protest, more than 300 detainees started a hunger strike, many have decided to start a hunger strike. In response to the hunger strike, security forces stormed the homes of the families of the detainees.
An American Egyptian detainee, Moustafa Kassem, died in custody on Monday January 13th due to a hunger strike protesting his innocence.
In August, Human Rights Watch said that Khaled Hassan, an Egyptian-American limousine driver imprisoned on terrorism charges, had tried to kill himself in his cell.
And among those detainees, is a Canadian citizen, Yasser Elbaz, who has been detained in Egypt for more than 300 days without trial.
The silence of western governments, including Canada, is giving a green light to all these violations and the deaths of dozens of detainees every year due to deliberate negligence.
Join us in this email campaign to ask Canadian Foreign Ministry to demand humane treatment for detainees, including Canadian citzien Yasser Elbaz, in Egypt.
Political Detainees in Egypt’s Scorpion prison are denied blankets and forced to sleep on the floor during the winter. Their families were banned from entering warm clothing to them, leaving tens of thousands of detainees suffering in the cold winter weather and exacerbating existing medical conditions. Security forces raid their cells to strip them of many of their clothes and personal belongings and deny them visits by their families.
On Saturday January 4th journalist Mahmoud Abdel Majid Mahmoud, 47, died inside the Scorpion prison after being denied medical care and suffering from the cold and hunger. As his condition deteriorated prison authorities ignored his and his cellmates’ cries for help and left him to die.
In despair and protest, more than 300 detainees started a hunger strike, many have decided to start a hunger strike. In response to the hunger strike, security forces stormed the homes of the families of the detainees.
An American Egyptian detainee, Moustafa Kassem, died in custody on Monday January 13th due to a hunger strike protesting his innocence.
In August, Human Rights Watch said that Khaled Hassan, an Egyptian-American limousine driver imprisoned on terrorism charges, had tried to kill himself in his cell.
And among those detainees, is a Canadian citizen, Yasser Elbaz, who has been detained in Egypt for more than 300 days without trial.
The silence of western governments, including Canada, is giving a green light to all these violations and the deaths of dozens of detainees every year due to deliberate negligence.
Join this email camapaign to demand that the Canadian government to publicly and clearly demand a humane treatment of all detainees in Egypt, including Canadian citizen Yasser Elbaz, and demand their release from prison, and condemn the politicized judicial system in Egypt.