- EGYPT
- March 28, 2016
- 10 minutes read
Egypt Detainees Plea Protests Administration Violations, Atrocities
Wadi Natron Prison detainees released a number of pleas and open letters protesting the ill-treatment they are suffering in jail, with some getting beaten and brutally abused. Under the title Call to Humanity, the detainees appealed to all the media and human rights organizations to report and help stop the systematic violations against them.
The main plea text was as follows:
Call to humanity and all those interested in or working for human rights, combating abuses against political prisoners and persecution in Egyptian prisons…
We, the detainees in Wadi Natrun Prison Complex – Block 430, call upon all the media and all human rights organizations to uncover the truth about what is really going on inside this prison. The administration and wardens systematically use various means and methods to abuse, punish and violate the rights of political prisoners, including:
1. Confinement inside cells, no physical exercise, ferocious inspections of cells – by prison officers led by Major Mohamed Sobhi, Mohamed Gharbaoui and Mohamed Yunis. Any cell where a detainee demands his rights incurs a collective punishment: complete lock-up, no exercise, violent attacks under the pretext of inspection, illegal removal of personal belongings including clothes, and generally abusing and torturing detainees psychologically and physically.
2. Overcrowding each cell with far too many inmates. It is not unusual to find 30 detainees in cells originally intended for only 14 prisoners. Detainees cannot find sufficient room to sleep or pray. More importantly, they often cannot even breathe. Hence, life is often impossible inside these.
3. Medical neglect, especially for inmates who suffer chronic or dangerous diseases. Those are prevented from getting necessary treatment. Moreover, detainees are badly mistreated at the prison hospital by both officers and doctors – who deal with prisoners in a brutal inhuman way, completely ignoring patients who really need surgical operations or medicines etc.
Telephone numbers for relatives of Wadi Natrun Prison detainees:
Mohamed Seddiq Alnaguli: 01009886975
Albaraa Imad: 01022848080
Amr Alfahil: 01004329219 and 01009963251
Ashraf Ahmed Abul-Fotouh: 01021071388 and 01005534407
Mohamed Shaaban: 01000632124
Yahya Ikl: 01012050002 and 01007917252
Mohamed Abdul-Hadi Elsayed: 01095158110
Adel Fahmi: 01019451194
Khaled Herbeid: 01069329374
Mahmoud Mustafa: 01016873194 and 01007056536
Mustafa Mahmoud: 01006817380
Abdul-Rahman Shohaib: 01017744746 and 01006660253
Khaled Abdul-Fattah: 01003918827 and 01060521205
Abdallah Al-Tantawi: 01011937828
Amr El-Ghandour: 01069785753
Ahmed Essam: 01127171189
Khaled Diab: 01001649706
Ayman Ahmed Nasr: 01005892549
Samir Kasbah: 01017851452
Abdul-Rahman Mohamed: 01006171890
Osama Shabrawi: 01066503440 and 01004844640
Ahmed Hossam-ul-Deen: 01094040170
Anas Mamdouh: 0502153699 and 01066874112
Abdullah Salama: 01202824166
Mohamed Abdel-Hamid: 01069551787
Elsayed Elzimaity: 01018642681
Ibrahim Alkatib: 01010478988
Islam Fouda: 01018618881
Hosni Al-Husseini: 01014415079
Abdul-Rahman Al-Tahiri Habib: 01011559378