Hundreds of Egyptian Activists Died in Prisons Due to Lack of Medical Care

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Alwaght: Over 264 Egyptian activists have lost their lives in the country’s notorious prisons and detention centers since the 2013 military ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi due to what is widely described as "medical negligence" on the part of prison authorities.
According a statement by the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Seventy-two of the detainees have died this year while in government detention centers due to denied access to medications or treatment facilities.
The list of opposition figures who perished in Egypt's prisons due to medical negligence include senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Farid Ismail who died in May, the oldest political prisoner in Egypt Sheikh Nabil Maghribi who died in June as well as Sheikh Morgan Salem Jouhari, a former member of the Shura Council of the Jihad organization.
As of August, four political prisoners have died in prison so far including Sheikh Izzat Salamoni, Ahmed Ghozlan, Sheikh Morgan Salem Jouhari and Mahmoud Hanafi of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In a January report, the Human Rights Watch noted that many Egyptians died in government custody in 2014, most of them packed into police stations in life-threatening conditions. Yet the authorities took no serious steps either to improve detention conditions or to independently investigate detainees’ deaths.
The report noted that, “Egypt’s prisons and police stations are bursting at the seams with opposition supporters rounded up by the authorities. People are being held in grossly overcrowded and inhumane conditions, and the mounting death toll is the wholly predictable consequence.”
The Egyptian government has been cracking down on any opposition since Morsi was ousted, arresting thousands of people including Brotherhood leaders and activists.
Morsi was elected president after the fall of long-time dictator, Hosni Mubarak, but was later ousted in a coup led by former military chief and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in July 2013. Morsi is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood which has been declared a terrorist organization leading to a major repression of its followers all over Egypt.

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