Recent reports have confirmed an alarming number of deaths in detention in Egyptian prisons due to poor detention conditions, massive overcrowding and the lack of medical care and treatment. Since 2013 over 600 persons have perished while in custody from an intolerable environment of detention, gross medical neglect and a complete failure to provide basic health care. Over one hundred more persons have died from being tortured in prison. Others have been executed following flawed and unfair trials. Those affected have mostly been persons detained for opposing the government, activists, human rights defenders and journalists. The facts show a clear policy and pattern of killing detainees slowly through flagrant neglect. Many thousands of others languishing in Egyptian jails are at risk. A panel of distinguished experts and lawyers will provide information about what is happening in Egyptian prisons, and consider the legal and wider implications, and potential remedies that are much needed.
Speakers:
- Rodney Dixon QC
- Barrister and International Human Rights Law specialist
- Hannah Philips
- Researcher at Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK
- Dr Maha Azzam
- Leading expert from Egypt, former Associate Fellow Chatham House
- Anne Coulon
- French and US lawyer, former Principal Legal Advisor to the President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)
- Annette So
- Deputy Director, The Death Penalty Project
- Sian Reeves
- Barrister and Human Rights Law expert
Where:
Temple Garden Chambers
1 Harcourt Buildings
Temple, London, EC4Y 9DA
Date:
Thursday, 14 November 2019, 5.00 – 6.30pm
