The Egyptian prisoner, Mohamed Saad El-Din El-Koumi, 22, was tortured to death in Gamasa High Security Prison, family sources revealed.
On August 20, the family was surprised by his death during their prison visit. No further information was given about his death circumstances.
The family later received his body from Mansoura General Hospital.
Violent protests broke out in the prison, in protest against El-Koumi’s suspicious death and human rights violations carried out against the prisoners.
Well-informed sources affirmed that El-Koumi died after being subjected to tough torture at the hands of the prison officers.
Al-Koumi, from Shubra area in Cairo, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of murder.
On Sunday, August 21, leaked videos swept the social media showing angry protests in Gamasa prison, where prisoners set fire to a number of cells.
Prison officials in Egypt are subjecting prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons to torture, cruel and inhuman conditions of detention, and are deliberately denying them health care to punish dissent.
The prison authorities’ callousness has led or contributed to deaths in custody and irreparable harm to prisoners’ health.
