Escalation of an Open-Ended Hunger Strike Inside Minya Prison (1), with Urgent Demands to Separate Political and Criminal Detainees and Improve Conditions

🔴 Escalation of an open-ended hunger strike inside Minya Prison (1), with urgent demands to separate political and criminal detainees and improve conditions

Al-Shehab Human Rights Center monitors this with the utmost condemnation, as an open-ended hunger strike inside Minya Prison (1) continues to escalate, coinciding with security raids and increasing threats against the strikers—rather than opening a serious dialogue and responding to their legitimate demands.

📌 Details of the crackdown and the most prominent demands of the strikers:

Security movements and threats: The prison witnessed raids on the prison blocks, searches of cells, and threats to impose punitive measures against the strikers, with the participation of one official from National Security in Minya, Officer Tarek Abdel Rabea, and a number of detectives.

Separation from criminal detainees: The demand to allocate separate routes and blocks for political detainees, distinct from criminal detainees.

Preserving the dignity of families during visits: Replacing the manual search of women with electronic devices to prevent humiliation and abuses against the families of detainees.

Health care and outdoor exercise: Providing medical care and necessary examinations for patients without delay, and ensuring the right to exercise outdoors and adequate ventilation.

Ending geographic displacement and deportation: Transferring detainees to prisons closer to their governorates to ease the material and human burden on their families.

Allowing radio devices: Permitting the entry of radio devices (AM) in accordance with the relevant regulations.

⚖️ Al-Shehab Center’s demands:

Stopping retaliatory measures: Banning all threats, punitive searches, and security crackdowns against detainees on hunger strike.

Responding to fair demands: Immediate engagement with the detainees’ demands, foremost among them improving the medical file and separating categories.

Independent investigation: Opening a judicial investigation into any violations or abuses committed against the strikers inside the prison.

Bringing detention locations closer: Transferring detainees to prisons near their families’ places of residence to reduce suffering for families.

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