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The death of director Shadi Habash inside his prison at Tora prison on Saturday reopened the health care file in Egyptian jails.
Young director Shadi Habash, 22, died more than a month after the end of the two-year maximum detention limit, and without a formal charge.
Habash was arrested in March 2018 after he directed a satirical song by the Egyptian regime called “Balha” by singer Rami Essam.
The Public Ministry does not carry out the explanation of why Shadi Habash, God have mercy on him, was in prison two months after the end of the two-year period. Is it not a “suspicion” in itself that deserves investigation?
– Amr Magdi (@ganobi) May 2, 2020
Despite the United Nations condemning the circumstances of the detention of the late Islamic President Mohamed Morsi, and after his death during one of his trial sessions last June, the archive is still waiting for whoever really moves him.
Shadi Habash’s case is at least the third, in a Tora prison neighborhood, among prisoners of conscience in less than ten months, after the death of 54-year-old Mustafa Qassem, who is a US citizen. , despite a request by the US authorities to release him, and also Amr Adel, who died in prison at age 29.
And United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi “his disaffection” after the “tragic and unwarranted” death of US citizen Mustafa Qassem in Egyptian jails, where he has been arrested since 2013 .
Qassem suffered from diabetes and heart problems, and died on January 13, having started a hunger strike about three months ago, and in recent days stopped drinking fluids.
Eyewitness
When Dr. Ahmed Saeed’s colleague was in another cell in the same prison, complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath, the prison authorities rejected his request to go to the doctor’s office.
Dr. Ahmed Hekaya remembers his friend, a teacher from the Damanhur governorate, named Subhi Abdel Hamid, when they were together in prison. “When he finally did go, the doctor kicked him out of the clinic on the pretext of being sick, my colleague died in his cell, and when they opened me until I saved him and found him dead.”
Ahmed Saeed spent a year in prison and was released three years ago and currently lives in Germany, explaining that “in the year I spent in prison the least time I opened a cell after the prisoners’ consultations (open my shawish in it a with death) and the frustration at the doors was half an hour, this time from Vamos, where they opened our colleague’s cell after he was already dead. ”
There is a prisoner of my colleague in a second cell in the same room, preferring a week complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath, and asked to go to the clinic, and when he finally went, the doctor expelled him from the clinic because he was sick. Subhi Abdel Hamid, professor at Damanhour.
– Ahmed said (@ ahmah_sa3eed) May 3, 2020
Ahmed believes that medical care in Egyptian prisons uses “as any of the prisoners’ rights as a punishment tool, starting with an insulting medical examination, through the prevention of medications and the fact that prison doctors do not examine the patients and consider them incompatible. ”
UN report
Last November, a report by UN experts, including commissioner for extrajudicial executions Agnes Calamard, said the “brutal” prison conditions in which the late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi found himself could be a direct cause of his death. at the age of 67.
The report added that Morsi’s death under those conditions of detention amounted to “arbitrary and state-sanctioned killings.”
According to the report, thousands of detainees in various parts of Egypt suffer human rights violations, “some of which are at risk of death,” in what appears to be “a continuous and deliberate practice of the regime of the current president, Abdel Fattah El -Yes Yes”.
Egypt previously denounced the UN commission for an independent investigation into Morsi’s death.
After the UN report, and Egyptian authorities subjected to international criticism, the doors of the famous Tora prison complex in Cairo were opened to journalists and media workers, in a rare incident, and in an attempt to correct continued criticism of the government over human rights violations in prisons.
Strike
And with unconfirmed reports that there was a strike in Tora prison, protesting the death of Shadi Habash, Dr. Ahmed Saeed recalls: “After Subhi’s death, we started a hunger strike and every day we started to sing of oppression and anger, and then the administration began negotiations with the prisoners. ”
Tora prison strike to protest death # Shady_Habash Who was arrested two years ago for producing a song? #Happy TO # Rami_Assam pic.twitter.com/9xNaXyLZ1A
– Popular revolution (@ThawretShaaab) May 2, 2020
He added that “12 prisoners who went on strike were locked up in a high-security prison, and after several months they came back and told us about the torture they had suffered, and Sobhi’s story died slowly, as he died slowly.”
Habash will not be the last.
On Sunday, nine Egyptian human rights organizations considered the death of young director Shadi Habash in his prison, “new evidence of deteriorating conditions in Egyptian prisons and the lack of medical care there, especially in light of the testimonies. received that they continue to seek help from their colleague for many hours without success. “
The organizations renewed their demand to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to inspect the conditions and conditions in Egyptian prisons, after the alarming increase in deaths associated with medical negligence in prisons.
The organizations also called for the formation of a national mechanism of independent human rights organizations, which would organize unannounced visits to prisons and ensure that they apply all necessary separation, cleaning and protection measures, especially in light of the deadly Covid epidemic. -19.
The organizations that signed the declaration are the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights, the Arab Network for Human Rights Information, the Guest Community, the Nadim Center, the Baladi Center of Rights and Freedoms, the Egyptian Commission on Rights and Freedoms, the Foundation for Freedom of Thought and Expression, and the Freedom Initiative.
The organizations said: “Shadi Habash’s death recalls the names of dozens of creators, including artists, directors, authors, poets, writers, publishers, and bloggers, whose lives are currently lost in jails for exercising their legitimate right to freedom of creativity, as well as others who were hidden or prosecuted and released through preventive measures or after prison terms. Prolonged as a method of intimidation and deterrence. ”
He added that “the death of Shadi Habash will not be the last, as long as the Egyptian authorities insist on ignoring calls for national, international and international human rights to release some prisoners in order to reduce the accumulation of prisons, especially those that they are in preventive detention, and those at risk of medical negligence. ”
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