Mohamed Soltan spent nearly two years in an Egyptian prison suffering from torture and other abuse. Now he’s going after the man who allowed it
After the military coup that overthrew Morsi, tens of thousands of activists, mainly from the president’s Muslim Brotherhood group were swept up in police raids and have been kept in prison since.
Morsi died of a heart attack in Cairo’s Tora prison in 2019 after six years of imprisonment in conditions widely condemned by human rights groups. “Dr Morsi was held in conditions that can only be described as brutal, particularly during his five-year detention in the Tora prison complex,”“Dr Morsi’s death after enduring those conditions could amount to a State-sanctioned arbitrary killing.”
. The autocratic system that has developed under Sisi leaves any form of criticism liable to arrest and imprisonment, often without due process.inside Egyptian prisonsThe organisation further warned that the coronavirus pandemic risked the lives of those living in already unsanitary and unsafe conditions within Egypt’s prison system.
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