Egypt: Abused and denied heath care, prisoners` lives at risk
(World News Egypt)

Prison officials in Egypt are subjecting prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons to torture, cruel and inhuman conditions of detention and are deliberately denying them health care to punish dissent, Amnesty International said in a new damning report today highlighting how prison authorities` callousness has led or contributed to deaths in custody and irreparable harm to prisoners` health. The report, “What do I care if you die?” Negligence and denial of health care in the Egyptian prisons released on the 10th anniversary of the start of Egypt`s 2011 uprising, paints a grim picture of the human rights crisis in Egyptian prisons, which president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi`s...