New Details on Violent Assault Against Journalist “Ahmed Sobea” Inside Badr 3 Prison… Dragged from the Fourth Floor, His Hair Shaved, and His Medicines Withheld Inside Punishment Cells
🔴 New details on a violent assault against journalist “Ahmed Sobea” inside Badr 3 Prison… dragged from the fourth floor, his hair shaved, and his medicines withheld inside punishment cells
🚨 Al-Shehab Human Rights Center has received new information and testimonies revealing serious details about the physical assault suffered by writer-journalist “Ahmed Sobea,” a member of the Journalists’ Syndicate, inside Badr 3 Prison. This comes amid growing concerns about his physical and psychological safety and continued exposure to violations while in custody.
📌 Details of the assault and dragging inside the prison:
According to information provided to the Center, journalist Ahmed Sobea was subjected to a violent assault on Wednesday, 11 November 2026 evening. It began with flooding his cell with water, then directing the water at him directly, before he was taken out of the cell and his hands were bound.
The information states that elements of the Special Forces and prison security forces then fell upon him with severe beatings, before dragging him from the fourth floor down to the ground floor, while continuing to assault him and delivering violent blows to his body.
The information added that he was then taken to one of the punishment cells, where his head hair was shaved. He was left inside the cell in his wet clothes, without being allowed to obtain his personal medications, in harsh detention conditions that threaten his safety and health.
His detention inside the punishment room continued until Saturday, 14 November 2026, before he was returned to his cell, according to the information received.
📌 Names of officials mentioned in the assault incident:
Based on the information received by the Center, the names of a number of prison administration and security personnel were mentioned as participants in the assault. They are:
🔹 Ahmed Owais: Head of Investigations at Badr 3 Prison.
🔹 Karim Al-Rifai: An officer with the security forces.
🔹 Alaa Othman: A prison informant.
🔹 Ahmed Fekry: An officer in whose presence the information indicates the assault occurred.
⚠️ Human rights concerns regarding torture and ill-treatment:
Al-Shehab Human Rights Center expresses deep concern about this information, stressing that the reported incidents, if proven, constitute serious violations of detainees’ rights and may rise to the level of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
The Center warns of the seriousness of the physical assault on journalist Ahmed Sobea, leaving him in wet clothes inside punishment cells, and withholding his medicines, and of the serious health complications that may result from this.
⚖️ Urgent demands to the Journalists’ Syndicate and the Public Prosecution:
🔴 Al-Shehab Human Rights Center calls on the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate, headed by the Syndicate’s chairperson, to urgently intervene to ascertain the truth of the reported assaults against Syndicate member Ahmed Sobea, and to take the necessary professional and legal measures to protect him and ensure his safety.
🔴 The Center also calls on the Public Prosecutor to open an urgent, independent judicial investigation into the incident, to hear the statements of journalist Ahmed Sobea, to investigate all those whose names were mentioned in the information related to the assault, and to hold accountable everyone whose responsibility is proven.
🔴 The Center emphasizes the need to enable journalist Ahmed Sobea to undergo an independent medical examination, to provide his medications and necessary treatment without delay, and to ensure that he is not subjected to any assaults or retaliatory measures inside his place of detention.
Al-Shehab Human Rights Center confirms that the safety of detainees is a direct legal responsibility of the competent authorities, and that all allegations related to torture and ill-treatment require a serious and independent investigation.
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