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Sharqawi's ordeal continues...
Hossam el-Hamalawy
Youth for Change activist, Mohamed el-Sharqawi sent a new letter from Mahkoum Tora Prison, cell no. 1-B, dated 12 June, complaining of medical negligence. The State Security Prosecutor had decided earlier last week to allow him treatment at El-Manyal University Hospital outside prison. Apparently this all turned out to be a farce. Here are excerpts from Sharqawi's letter:
The State Security prosecutor, Mohamed Faisal, who’s a #$%&^%, was trying to suck up to us and please us in any way last time we were referred to him—and I need to emphasize that we refused, and still refuse, to be interrogated by him, and we are requesting a magistrate instead. He told me he will refer me to El-Manyal University Hospital. But as soon as I went back to prison, I found out he had referred me instead to the prison hospital in Liman Tora.
At any rate, the prison did not even get me a bones medical specialist, as the prosecutor ordered. Just, every two days, a doctor passes by, and writes a medical report on my condition. The last person who came and wrote a report about my medical condition was today, Monday. He discovered I had a fracture in my seventh rib, and my left hand wrist, that needs a surgery and the insertion of metal plates. And I took a paper from him saying that, but he refused to mention everything in his official medical report....
Sharqawi's lawyers have also issued a statement "calling upon local and international civil society to exert pressures on the Egyptian government in order to rescue Al-Sharqawi's life which is in continuously increasing danger."
The State Security prosecutor, Mohamed Faisal, who’s a #$%&^%, was trying to suck up to us and please us in any way last time we were referred to him—and I need to emphasize that we refused, and still refuse, to be interrogated by him, and we are requesting a magistrate instead. He told me he will refer me to El-Manyal University Hospital. But as soon as I went back to prison, I found out he had referred me instead to the prison hospital in Liman Tora.
At any rate, the prison did not even get me a bones medical specialist, as the prosecutor ordered. Just, every two days, a doctor passes by, and writes a medical report on my condition. The last person who came and wrote a report about my medical condition was today, Monday. He discovered I had a fracture in my seventh rib, and my left hand wrist, that needs a surgery and the insertion of metal plates. And I took a paper from him saying that, but he refused to mention everything in his official medical report....
Sharqawi's lawyers have also issued a statement "calling upon local and international civil society to exert pressures on the Egyptian government in order to rescue Al-Sharqawi's life which is in continuously increasing danger."
Reader Comments (5)
Bastards. I guess the idea is to make an example of him in the worst possible way.
Out of interest, what's a magistrate in Arabic?
Does anyone know where one could get a pamphlet or something outling a citizen's legal rights in case of arrest? I seem to recall the ACIJLP had something like that at one point.
[...] read in English the Arabist post “Sharqawi’s ordeal continues…”n  [...]
Magistrate is "Qadi Tahqiq" if I'm not mistaken.
[...] On another front, Mohamed el-Sharqawi was transferred today to the Liman Tora Prison hospital at 9am, where he was told that his X-rays, taken on May 28, were “lost.” The doctor took new X-rays of him, and returned him to his cell, without treatment or medication. [...]
Get through it. Uncountable are those who await you.