Muslim Brotherhood member dies in Egypt police custody
Another member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has died in police custody due to an unattended medical condition, Press TV reports.
Salah al-Bassoussy, 50, who was reported dead on Friday, had been in detention at the Kafr el-Dawar police station in the northwestern province of Beheira.
The Brotherhood member, who suffered from a chronic liver disease, was said to have been in critical condition for three days prior to his death.
His family and human rights activists gathered in protest outside the police detention center, saying that the victim had died due to “deliberate medical negligence” by prison authorities. Five of the demonstrators were arrested.
Bassoussy, who was never indicted by the judiciary for any charge, had been in police detention since February over allegations of participation in anti-government demonstrations.
One week earlier, the same police station in Kafr el-Dawar had witnessed the death of another detainee, also due to reported medical negligence.
In late June, a Cairo-based rights group revealed that as many as 269 people have lost their lives in Egyptian police custody since the 2013 ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically-elected president.
The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) disclosed the data in a report to the United Nations marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Last month, the London-based Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) issued another report titled, Graves of the Living, documenting another 40 deaths among the detainees in the month of August.
Over 300 prisoners have died in detention in similar circumstances since the Egyptian government’s heavy-handed crackdown on Brotherhood members started in the wake of the July 2013 ouster of Morsi, which was a coup led by the then head of the armed forces Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, the current military-backed president.
Hundreds of supporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement have been killed and thousands of others detained over the past months.
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