Their Right

🔴 "No one moved to try to save his life." 📌 These words encapsulate the details of a story that has become almost a daily occurrence within Egyptian prisons and detention centers. Even in those newly opened prisons, touted by the regime as having hotel-like accommodations, the reality has been exposed through the increasing number of victims. 📌 They turned out to be nothing more than prisons with a modern façade, tightly sealed and heavily monitored—closer to tombs than places of detention. This is if we consider that there was any wrongdoing committed by prisoners of conscience deserving of incarceration and punishment in the first place! #TheirRight #FreethemAll

The continued enforced disappearance of citizens "El-sayed Al-Ajez and Mohammed Al-Iraqi," who were forcibly deported from Bahrain to #Egypt, where they have not been presented to the prosecution and their whereabouts remain unknown until this moment. #TheirRight #FreeThemAll

The National Security threatens to turn Badr 3 into "Guantanamo Egypt"! Rima has returned to her old ways. After a period of relative calm, the National Security officer in charge of Badr 3 prison, Major Marwan Hammad, resumed his previous practices of violating the rights of political prisoners and issuing continuous threats. In the latest threat, he claimed to have "full authority from the Minister of Interior himself" to turn the prison into a graveyard if the prisoners did not obey his orders. A leaked message from Badr 3 prison reached the "Their Right" organization, revealing details of suffering and violations. The message stated that Major Marwan Hammad threatened several detainees with turning the prison into "Guantanamo" if they continued to protest against the current visitation conditions. He assured them that he had extensive powers directly from the Minister of Interior to turn the prison into a graveyard if the prisoners didn't comply with his orders. More than 600 prisoners attempted suicide, with some cases coming close to death. Despite promises from the Ministry of Interior to improve visitation and medical care within the prison, the actual situation was disappointing. Visitation occurred once every two months for only 20 minutes via a communication booth, and direct contact with their families, especially children, was not allowed. The prisoners hung banners in front of surveillance cameras, demanding longer and more frequent visits like other prisons, and the opportunity to have direct meetings with their families, especially since many of them hadn't seen their families in over 5 years. However, the prison administration, led by Major Marwan Hammad, rejected these demands. Over 50 prisoners in Sector 2, known as the "Muslim Brotherhood Leaders" sector, are completely prohibited from visits or receiving any food from their families. The cells remain closed, and they are not allowed to communicate with anyone inside the prison. The prisoners mentioned that the allowed exercise time, which is two hours per day for each prisoner according to prison regulations, is only allowed "twice a week" with strict supervision and limited guards. Regarding healthcare services, they are still insufficient and slow, with delays in surgeries, tests, and X-rays. There is a complete absence of specialized doctors in critical fields like orthopedics, dentistry, neurology, and surgery. Medical examinations are only allowed once every two months after significant delays. The official meals provided are of very low quantity and quality, but they allow prisoners to attempt to cover their needs through personal funds by purchasing limited snacks weekly, such as 40 grams of chips or a pack of biscuits every 10 days, and a 100-gram packet of salt each month. However, there are restrictions on items like milk, soft drinks, fish, vegetables, and fruits. The detainees maintain that they are still under pretrial detention and deserve direct weekly visits with their families for 45 minutes, where they can bring food, medicine, clothes, and other items in accordance with prison regulations. They consider their strict imprisonment unlawful. They hold the National Security officer, Yahya Zakaria, responsible for the tension in the prison. He is in charge of prisons within the National Security apparatus, alongside officer Marwan Hammad, who both view any rights granted to prisoners as "an insult to them," and they provoke prisoners through agents to create conflicts and repeated harassment. This serves as a pretext to close the prison again after the wave of suicide attempts, as Major Marwan Hammad has stated on several occasions that he is "waiting for orders from his superiors to close the prison again."

The phenomenon of daily power outages for 8 hours in different governorates has caused panic among Egyptians. In contrast, tens of thousands of prisoners (political and criminal) suffer from deadly detention conditions due to the extreme rise in temperatures and continuous electricity cuts. There is a lack of ventilation, and fans are prohibited in the overcrowded narrow cells with detainees. "Their Rights" organization calls on activists, politicians, and concerned individuals to stand in solidarity with the detainees on social media platforms and use the hashtag "#I_Want_to_Breathe" to convey their suffering. #I_Want_to_Breathe #TheirRight #FreeThemAll

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor detailing the torture and violations endured by the student activist Moaz Al-Sharqawi. The violations include multiple instances of torture, in addition to a violation of the provisions of the 2015 Terrorism Law, which allows for a 28-day detention period with the condition that the detainee has: - The right to communicate with their family - The right to legal representation - Placement in a designated location according to the law - Issuance of a causative order by at least a public prosecutor - The right to appeal the detention decision before the court Moaz Al-Sharqawi appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution on June 3, following an enforced disappearance since the evening of Thursday, May 11, 2023. The State Security Prosecution disregarded reports of his disappearance and placed him under Case No. 540 of 2023, charged with belonging to a terrorist group and financing it. They decided to detain him for 15 days and transfer him to Badr 3 prison. Moaz Al-Sharqawi was first arrested in September 2018 and also subjected to enforced disappearance for 25 days, during which he was tortured. He was released after being detained for a year and a half. However, in May 2022, an Emergency State Security Court (an exceptional court) sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment. #Egypt #TheirRight #FreeThemAll

"Joint statement: Behind the facade of the National Dialogue, a new campaign to terrorize the political and human rights community through new terrorism lists!" #Egypt #TheirRight #FreeThemAll

1️⃣ Mohamed Reda, known as "AkA Oxygen," is an Egyptian journalist who owns a YouTube channel where he documents events, activities, and people's opinions on the street. However, in Egypt, where the press freedom index is ranked 168 out of 180 countries,