The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights filed lawsuit number 62685\u00a0for judicial year 66 on behalf of Waleed Hassan Mohamed, who is in prison pending\u00a0case number 3842 for the year 2012, known in the media as the Nile City Towers\u00a0case, naming the President, the Prime Minister, the Director General of the Prison\u00a0Authority, and the public prosecutor for their refusal to take the necessary measures\u00a0to treat the prisoner. In spite of the privileges given to prisoners pending trial by the\u00a0legislator, including the right to cells separate from those of other prisoners, the right\u00a0to stay in furnished rooms, the right to wear their own clothing, and also in violation\u00a0to the Egyptian Constitutional Declaration, the Code of Criminal Procedure, prison\u00a0regulations, and all international conventions on treating humans with dignity and his\u00a0right to health and medical treatment.<\/p>\n
The plaintiff and his family filed a complaint with the Tora prison warden asking\u00a0for medical treatment, they also sent a telegraph to the minister of interior and to the\u00a0public prosecutor asking that medical treatment be offered to the plaintiff. However,\u00a0nothing has been done till now which demonstrates clear abuse and a failure to\u00a0provide the plaintiff with medical treatment. This prompted the center\u2019s lawyers to file\u00a0a lawsuit against the executive branch of government for their decision to refrain from\u00a0treating the plaintiff.<\/p>\n
The plaintiff was arrested during the Ramlet Boulaq events on August 2nd 2012,\u00a0known in the media as the Nile City events, which are now being investigated before\u00a0the public prosecutor and where 17 accused are imprisoned pending the case. Their\u00a0temporary prison sentence was renewed for 30 days at a hearing on September 17,\u00a02012 and they were placed in Tora prison.<\/p>\n
Among the 17 accused is Waleed Hassan Mohamed; he suffers from poor health\u00a0conditions and poor medical treatment offered to him after a gunshot injury to the foot\u00a0after he was shot by a police officer named Hesham Etman from the Boulak Abul El-Ela police station right before his arrest. He also suffers from an injury to the cornea\u00a0in the left eye as a result of an injury prior to these events when he was performing\u00a0his work in protecting the towers from being stormed by thugs, where he was hit by\u00a0a rock which caused the explosion to his cornea, after which he had his first surgery\u00a0out of three to complete the treatment process, the sutures are still in his eye. He was\u00a0scheduled to undergo his second surgery three weeks ago which, so far, the prison\u00a0administration refuses to carry out, putting his life and his ability to see once again at\u00a0risk.<\/p>\n
The Egyptian Center deplores the Ministry of Interior\u2019s conduct when dealing with\u00a0the health issues of defendants under its control, and who do not have the freedom\u00a0to provide their own health care, which brings us back to an age and practices that\u00a0we had thought were irrevocably gone after the January 25 revolution. The Egyptian\u00a0Center calls upon all officials and stakeholders to intervene to stop such practices that\u00a0insult human dignity and the right to bodily integrity. The Center stresses that filing\u00a0the aforementioned lawsuit came after exhausting all the mechanisms that could be\u00a0used to help the defendant, particularly since we had knocked on all doors starting\u00a0with the prison authority and ending with the prosecutor general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Interior Remains Set in its Old Ways and Refuses to Treat a Prisoner\u00a0Threatened with Loss of Vision The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights filed lawsuit number 62685\u00a0for judicial year 66 on behalf of Waleed Hassan Mohamed, who is in prison pending\u00a0case number 3842 for the year 2012, known in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,357,875,871,872,354,873],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-771184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminaljustice","category-ecesrpressreleases","category-health-en","category-legalwork","category-litigation","category-pressreleases","category-socialrights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n