Egyptian detainee dies after being denied operation
An Egyptian detainee has died in police custody in the country’s second-largest city of Alexandria after being denied a heart operation, Press TV reports.
Mahmoud Hanafy, an anti-government activist, died in the al-Raml police station in the Montazah neighborhood of the northern Egyptian city on Friday.
According to Hanafy’s family and human rights activists in the city, the victim died after security authorities refused to allow him to have the operation.
Hanafy was the sixth detainee to die inside the country’s detention facilities in as many days.
The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), a Cairo-based NGO, said this week it had documented 71 cases of “unlawful killings” in Egyptian detention facilities in 2015, many of which occurred due to “medical negligence.”
The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), another Cairo-based rights group, said earlier in the year that as many as 269 people had lost their lives in the Egyptian custody since the 2013 ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically-elected president.
The group said 130 of the fatalities, which comprised 68 political detainees and 62 criminal defendants, had occurred under Egypt’s military-appointed former interim President Adly Mansour, who was trusted with the country’s leadership after Morsi’s overthrow from July 3, 2013, to early June 2014.
The ECRF also documented 139 deaths in Egyptian prisons and detention facilities since President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi ascended to power last year.
Morsi, affiliated with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement, was elected as the country’s president in 2012, but was ousted only a year later in a military coup led by the then army chief, Sisi.
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