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Young Egyptian director and cameraman # Shadi_ Habash died on Friday night inside his prison at Tora prison in southern Cairo as a result of a health crisis, according to his lawyer.
“Lawyer Shadi had been ill for several days and entered the hospital, and his mother found out about this, but yesterday he returned to his cell and died inside,” said human rights lawyer Ahmed Al-Khawaja from Cairo. He explained: “The burial permit was issued.”
Egyptian authorities arrested 24-year-old Habash in March 2018, a month after he released a video song for Egyptian singer Ramy Essam who currently resides abroad, titled “Balha,” which mocks the situation. politics in Egypt.
The State Security Prosecutor’s Office accused Habash of accusations of “spreading false news and joining a group established in violation of the law.”
The words of the song say: “Oh, sweet, balha, oh, suppressed … I have finished your four years.”
“The Arab Human Rights Information Network” wrote on Twitter today that Shadi died “as a result of negligence and lack of justice after spending more than two years in custody for a song.”
According to Al-Khawaja, the Habash family has been unable to contact him due to the suspension of visits to the prison since March 10 due to precautionary measures to deal with the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
“There was a session in his case that was also canceled,” due to the measures, he said.
Essam was known as “the singer of the revolution” and his name appeared in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution that overthrew the late President Hosni Mubarak.
Last October, Habash wrote a letter from his prison to the outside world asking for support, and many Twitter users posted the text of the message after the news of his death.
In his message, Habash wrote: “The prison cannot die but the unit dies. I need your support for Mamouche … In the last two years I have tried to resist (…) but you cannot save yourself.”
“Shadi Habash is Sisi’s responsibility personally … only because he participated in a song that criticized him and because no judge dares to exonerate those who criticize the President of the Republic,” wrote prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Bahi El Din Hassan on Twitter.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights launched an appeal last month to protect prisoners and release the most vulnerable detainees.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights asked Michel Bachelet to protect prisoners in overcrowded cells or in closed facilities from a pandemic by releasing the most vulnerable detainees.
The total number of prisoners in Egypt is approximately 106,000, including sixty thousand political prisoners, according to the Arab Human Rights Information Network.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi denies that Egypt has political detainees.
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