Victims continue to fall one after the other inside Egyptian prisons and detention centres due to ongoing violations practised by the Egyptian authorities against them, including the use of deliberate medical negligence and poor detention conditions as a mean for killing them slowly.
The detainee, Hassan Hussein Abdellatif Hemeda, 60, died in his prison cell in Minya Public Prison (south of Cairo) in mysterious circumstances.
Hemeda, from Zawyet El-Jamadi in Minya Governorate, worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Health. He had been arrested several times since 2014, until he died inside his prison cell on Friday, March 1, 2024, and the news of his death was only recently revealed.
Hemeda is the 9th victim to die inside Egyptian prisons and detention centres since the beginning of this year.
The cause of Hemeda’s death remains unknown, however it is notorious for Egyptian prisons to lack basic health requirements, including good quality of food and sanitary facilities, human toilets to cover the number of prisoners, lack of lighting, ventilation, and prevention from exercise, as well as extreme overcrowding inside cells.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides that “prisoners deprived of their liberty should be treated with humanity and respect for the inherent dignity of the human personality.”
