Egypt .. official statement on Alaa Abdel-Batta’s health and his “beaten” condition

The Egyptian Public Prosecutor’s Office published on Thursday, Official statement On his Facebook page about the condition of political prisoner Alaa Abdel-Battah, he included a description of his torture and ill-treatment.

As the public prosecutor received several petitions submitted by the detainee’s lawyer and his relatives, “the prosecution said it was investigating the complaints submitted about the detainee Alaa Abdel-Battah, the latest of which was on July twenty-sixth.”

In all pleadings, the Public Prosecution stated that “the detainee was previously tortured while in the Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in Torah (Dora Prison) and was prevented from visiting him by the correctional facility and his family.” Claiming to have refused to receive visitation.”

“As a result of their fear of the validity of this claim and the instability of the management of the correctional center, the public prosecutor took all measures to investigate these complaints to prevent him from visiting,” he stressed.

Accordingly, on Wednesday, the Attorney General “sent one of the chief prosecutors of the Human Rights Department of the Attorney General’s Office to the detainee’s detention at the Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in Wadi al-Natroon to review his file. Those visits.

And he added, “The last of those visits was to his mother on the sixteenth of this month, and after regular medical check-ups, it was revealed that he had no ill health. Any previous illness.”

“From the director of the medical center at the correctional center, he testified that the inmate was in good health and that a specialist doctor was visiting him and other inmates regularly to follow up on his condition,” the prosecution pointed out. Also, the detainee never suffered from any health problem or reported any symptoms.”

Further, “in hearing from the Deputy Director of the Correctional and Rehabilitation Center, he testified that inmates were not receiving meals, receiving visits, and exercising regularly.”

He pointed out that the chief prosecutor “inspected the cell in which the prisoner was confined, which was spacious and not overcrowded, and as there were only three prisoners, it also enjoyed good ventilation and light.” Having a large number of books and magazines in various languages ​​and covering the necessary necessities of life.” .

“By asking Alaa Abdel-Fattah, the public prosecutor’s office of the prisoner, it was concluded that he was treated with dignity by the officials and staff of the Correctional and Rehabilitation Center, and that he did not complain about his place in detention, or the prevention of his living needs (…) The public prosecutor examined the prisoner. , it was found that there were no injuries on his body which indicated that he had been subjected to torture earlier, and he asked him if there were any injuries that the public prosecutor had overlooked, and he replied in the negative.

Accordingly, he asserted, “Investigations carried out to date by state prosecutors in the aforementioned complaints have not proven the validity of the content of physical torture or ill-treatment.”

According to Agence France-Presse His report was released on July 10 Currently, “prominent Egyptian political activist and blogger, Alaa Abdel-Battah, (then) entered his 100th day of fasting, is the most famous political prisoner in Egypt, and has been imprisoned under the regime of four governments. Over the past two decades.”

Abdel Fattah, a 40-year-old computer programmer, was one of the activists who called him “the symbol of the January 25 revolution,” whose role in the Egyptian uprising came to light in 2011 when it toppled the regime of late President Hosni Mubarak. , according to the company.

Abdel Fattah, a recent British citizen, was first jailed in 2006 under Mubarak and then arrested again in 2011, during the regime of a military junta led by then-Egyptian Defense Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tandawi.

In 2013, Abdel Fattah was arrested twice: the first in March under the regime of the late Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, and the second in November, four months after the military overthrew the Morsi regime before then-Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became Egypt’s president.

Since then, Abdel Fattah has languished in Egyptian prisons, serving a five-year sentence for “demonstrating without a permit.” He was released in March 2019 and later arrested again in September of the same year.