On the fifth anniversary of the military coup against the first elected civilian president in the history of Egypt, thousands of Egyptian youths continue to be subjected to systematic slow death and a method of denying them the right to receive medical treatment in prisons and detention centres in clear contravention of all legislation preventing it.

The coup regime in Egypt is exercising the most heinous crimes and violations against them, in disregard of international human rights conventions either by the Council of Human Rights of the United Nations or of independent Arab and foreign international legal organizations.

The violations against the finest young people of Egypt are shameful and the crimes of coup are imprescriptible.

As stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights-Article 3 (Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person) and article 5 provides that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading Treatment or punishment.

Article 55 of the Egyptian Constitution states:

“Every person who is either arrested, detained, or his freedom is restricted shall be treated in a manner that maintains his dignity. He/she may not be tortured, intimidated, coerced, or physically or morally harmed; and may not be seized or detained except in places designated for that purpose, which shall be adequate on human and health levels. The State shall cater for the needs of people with disability.

Violating any of the aforementioned is a crime punished by Law.”

Deaths from medical negligence inside prisons are on the rise, and chronic diseases such as kidney failure, hepatitis and cancer, skin and infectious diseases, hypertension diseases, etc., the bodies of Egypt’s young people are mutilated without any scruples of conscience or humanity.

On the basis of reports from international human rights organizations, the first victim of medical negligence after June 30, was Dr. Safwat Khalil, 57, in Mansoura General prison. On 27 September 2013, for not receiving adequate treatment, as he was suffering from cancer, he needed to be hospitalized. The following deaths cases exceeded over 200 deaths by medical negligence.

Only the month of June 2018 witnessed three cases: Ahmed Abd al-Maboud, 35, in Tora Prison hospital due to complications of diabetes and negligence in his resuscitation.

Hossam el-Din Salem, 75, died in Gamasa prison as a result of complications of chronic illnesses and medical negligence.

Ahmed Abdullah Mohammed Abdullah, died inside his prison in Tora jail as a result of the delay in providing him with an ambulance.

In addition to other citizens who were killed in detention without the slightest accountability of the killer.

The Human Rights Committee of the Egyptian Parliament Abroad condemns the coup regime in general and what happens to the Aqrab prison detainees in particular, and calls for the concerted efforts of all international human rights organizations to stand against the torture slaughterhouses in Egyptian prisons and to immediately stop the slow death of the detainees inside the military cells and to hold accountable those responsible for these crimes, which are carried out in full view of the entire world.

Human Rights Committee of the Egyptian Parliament Abroad

July, 3, 2018