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16/6/2002
report
"Members of one Family are under detention."
EOHR's third report on the phenomenon of recurrent detention in Egypt
2002
Models of Families under Detention
First family
Four members of this family were all detained at the same time and only in the year 2001 one of them was released. Their father died and the mother was the sole supporter of the family. She suffers under severe illness and can not visit her sons. She takes care of her mother and goes to visit her sons from time to time. The sister of the three sons, whose husband is also in detention, has financial problems and is using the pension of her father, which she spends in order to meet the needs of her family and the house and also to visit her brothers and husband, who are put in different and far away prisons. This consequently makes it hard for the family to be able to visit the sons constantly.
1- Salah Mohamed Mohamed was detained on the 15th of August 1991 and was moved from a prison to another until he was sent to the one in Assiut. He is 45 years old and has 3 sons, the oldest of them is 13 years old. He has several illnesses (one of them is slipped disc) and he needs an operation, but the hospital of the prison did not do it to him. Nowadays, he is studying law inside the prison and does not have a constant financial resource.
2- Alaa El Din Mohamed Mohamed was detained in the year 1992 and was moved to many prisons and now he is in Wady El Gedid prison He is 39 years old, single and was a student in the Faculty of Engineering, but he was prevented from taking the exam of year 2000. He also suffers from bronchitis.
3- Essam Mohamed Mohamed was detained in 1992 and was also moved from one prison to another until he reached the prison of Wady El Gedid, where he is still there. He is 30 years old, single, suffering from slide disc and he did not attend his exams in the Faculty of Art.
4- Ahmed Abdo Selim was detained in 1994, because he is married to the three brother's sister. He was put in a prison with strict security forces and he has illnesses one of them is septic colon. He has two sons in different educational stages and his wife is providing money for the whole family and suffers from the fact that her brothers and husband are not put in one prison.
Second family
This family can be considered luckier then the previous one. Only three members of this family are in prison and all are put in Wady Natroon 2 prison. They have a younger brother and their parents live on the pension of the father, who has a number of illnesses and has no other financial source but the pension. The mother usually gets the permissions and the necessary papers to visit her sons, and because the family sometimes faces shortage in money, the family has to sell some of its furniture from time to time in order to be able to visit the three sons in prison. The mother is calling the Ministry of Interior to release one of her sons in order to help the family financially. Also one of her sons is sick and has septic colon and his health condition is getting worse everyday.
1- Emad Hamed Abdel Fattah was detained on the 14th of December 1993 and was moved from a prison to another. Nowadays he is in the Wady Natroon 2 prison. He is 31 years old, single and has septic colon and his health condition is getting worse. He is a student in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, but he did not do any exams for the past two years.
2- Walid Hamed Abdel Fattah was detained on the 27th of April 1994 and after moving from one prison to another he was sent to the Wady Natroon 2 prison. He is 27 years old, single and a student in Faculty of Commerce, but did not take the exams.
3- Mohamed Hamed Abdel Fattah was detained on the 15th of January 1995 and moved from a prison to another and finally was put in Wady Natroon 2 prison. He is 25 years old, suffers from bronchitis, and he is a student in his last year in high school.
The family recalls that when the youngest son was being arrested they were told by the officer that he will soon come back, but he did not. The family hopes that this crisis will end someday and that their sons get their release permissions in order to help the family in their financial problems.
Third family
Three members of this family are detained and the father is 75 years old, has no financial resource and needs help in his life. One of his sons is married and has 3 children, and the grandfather has to take good care of them, while at the same time he wants to visit his sons in the prison, which is very expensive, and he wants to provide his grandchildren a peaceful and happy life. He wishes that at least one of his sons gets out of the prison in order to take care of the grandfather and the children and to provide them with the necessary money.
1- Abdel Nasser Fathy El Sayyed Abdel Kader was detained in 1992 and after moving from a prison to another he was put in the prison of Wady El Gedid. He is 35 years, married and has 3 sons, who do not have a financial resource after their father was imprisoned. His daughter has is psychologically sick and her illness needs lots of expenses and to be cured she has to go to a foreign country. The grandfather can not meet all his grandchildren's needs alone. Abdel Nasser is a student in the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, but he did not take any exams. He is also sick and has diabetes mellitus
2- Abdallah Fathy El Sayyed Abdel Kader was detained on the 20th of July 1992 and is nowadays in the prison of Wady El Gedid after moving from one prison to another. He is 32 years old and suffers from bronchitis.
3- Sayyed Fathy El Sayyed was detained on the 17th of March 1992 and moved from a prison to another until he was sent to the Fayoum prison. He is 27 years old and a student in high school, but did not attend the exams and he suffers from bronchitis.
Fourth family
Two brothers of this family are in prison and both are married and have children. The biggest part of the load is on the grandmother's shoulder, who provides money for the grandchildren, arranges for the visits to the two sons, and tries to get the basic needs for the family. This creates huge physical and financial load on the grandmother, who told the organization that she wishes the day will come when her sons will get out of prison and will work and she will get the physical and mental rest she deserves before her death.
1- Ahmed Hamed Abdel Hamid Azzam was detained in 1993 and was moved from a prison to another until he was held in the prison of Damanhour. He is 40 years old, married and has children, who do not have a constant financial source that is why they are not able to go visit their father regularly. He is sick and has peptic ulcer.
2- Kamel Hamed Abdel Hamid Azzam was detained in 1993 and after moving from a prison to another he was kept in the prison of Damanhour. He is 37 years old, married and has a number of children in different educational stages. Because of his absence, his family is having financial problems and that is the reason why they cannot visit him on a regular basis. Adding to this the fact that he is sick and has bronchitis and he needs lots of medicine, that his family has to provide for him.
Fifth family
This family has three of its members in detention. The three of them are married and have children and there are huge financial problems within this family. The problem is that each one of the three sons is put in a different prison, which creates additional financial problems on the family when it visits each son in a different prison.
Nevertheless, the family is doing its best in order to meet their basic needs and to meet the needs of their sons in prison, whose health deteriorated within the prison.
1- Ahmed Abdel Rahman Aly Awwad is 41 years old, married and has a son and a daughter. His wife does not work and so they do not have any financial resource. He has slipped disk and diabetes mellitus, which means that he needs lots of expensive medicine and his family is not always able to provide the medicine for him. He is a student in the faculty of law but was not able to take the exam because of the surrounding conditions. His family is selling the house furniture in order to be able to go visit him in prison.
2- Mostafa Abdel Rahman Aly Awwad was detained on the 16th of April 1994 and moved from one prison to another, but now he is kept in the Tora prison and he is 38 years old, married and has 3 children, the oldest is in primary school. The family does not have a constant financial resource, but the wife found a simple job in order to be able to meet her children's needs. The husband has nephritis and the wife wishes that her husband gets his release and takes charge again of the family and that the children continue their education.
3- Khaled Abdel Rahman Aly Awwad was detained on the 16th of April 1994 and after moving from one prison to another, he was kept in the Abou Zabal prison. He is 34 years old, single and has a skin disease. He is a student in Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, but he could not take the tests.
The family of these three prisoners wishes that their sons go out of prison in order for them to take care of their families and children, and in order to focus on their health. If their release is not possible, then the family hopes that the three sons be put in one prison together so that the expenses for visiting them will be less.
Sixth family
Three members of this family are in detention and the family made many complaints and received the release decisions, but they were never executed and the three sons are still imprisoned. Nevertheless, the family is still saving the necessary money in order to visit their sons although they are kept in different prisons.
1- Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Rashwan was detained on the 25th of September 1995 and after moving from one prison to another he was sent to Damanhour prison, where he is still there. He is 45 years, married and has a number of children, but they do not have a regular source of money. His vision is week and he can barely see, and his family goes through lots of troubles and faces lots of financial problems in order to visit him.
2- Ahmed Ahmed Mohamed Rashwan was detained on the same day like his older brother and he was also moved from one prison to another until they kept him in the Damanhour prison, too. He is 42 years old, married and has a number of children and they do not have a regular source of money. He is sick and has a skin disease which requires lots of medicine and the family has to provide the money and medicine for him. Adding to this the needs of the house and the children and the money for Ahmed in prison, all these factors increase the financial problems of the family.
3- Mahmoud Ahmed Mohamed Rashwan was detained on the same day with his two other brothers and after moving from a prison to another he was kept in the Abou Zabal prison. He is 35 years old, married and has a number of children and they do not have a regular source for money and the family suffers under severe living conditions and it asks the officials to release the three sons in order for them to be in charge of the financial matters.
Seventh family
Two members of this family are detained and their father is an old man, who can not take care of the family alone. He suffers under psychological problems and does not have a regular financial source, nevertheless he makes sure to provide his sons with whatever they need like for example the necessary medicine for their illness and he also visits them whenever the financial situation makes it possible.
1- Hesham Mohamed El Sayyed was detained in the year 1992 and was moved from one prison to another and nowadays he is put in the Wady El Gedid prison. He is 30 years old, single and has bronchitis and he needs continuous medication to cure the disease, which costs the family lots of money.
2- Essam Mohamed El Sayyed was detained in the year 1992 and after moving from a prison to another, he was put in the Damanhour prison. He is 27 years old, single and suffers from a skin disease and needs medication. He is a student in the faculty of commerce and could not take the exam and his family asks the officials to release the two sons.
Eighth family
Two members of this family are detained and the father is 75 years old. Nevertheless, he says that he "will keep moving and do his best in order to provide his family good living conditions and to able to visit my sons in the prison. I hope I live long enough to see my sons released, because I miss them so much and I wish they can soon get their release permissions, take care of me, and be in charge of the house".
1- Khaled Abdel Hafeez Hassan was detained during the year 1991 and moved from a prison to another until he was put in Abou Zabal prison. He is 31 years old, single and he is a student in the Faculty of Commerce, Assiut University, but he could not take the exam.
2- Ibrahim Abdel Hafeez Hassan was detained in the year 1993 and after moving from one prison to another he was put in Damanhour prison. He is 28 years old, single and has a skin disease and nephritis and needs lots of expensive medication, which is provided by his family, who face lots of financial problems in order to be able to visit the two sons in prison and the family wishes that the sons get their release permissions and come home soon.
Ninth family
This family has four of its sons in prison. The father of the four sons wrote a letter to the lawyer of the organization saying:" My four sons are all detained since the year 1993 and they got more than 100 release permissions but none of them were applied. During December 1998 one of them got his release, but he came out of the prison very sick and suffering from many diseases. I hope you can contact the officials and ask them to release the rest of my sons before they come out of the prison in the same condition like their brother with lots of disease. I am an old man, 75 years old, and I cannot go visit my sons regularly because of the lack of money and my weak physical condition and we do not have a constant financial source".
1- Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Naby was detained on the 4th of April 1995 and was moved from one prison to another until he was put in the Wady El Natroun 1 prison. He is 40 years old, married and has two kids; one is 8 and the other 6 years old. He has a skin disease and his wife wonders how she can live without getting money, especially that the father does not have any pension.
2- Aly Mohamed Abdel Naby was detained on the 15th of June 1994 and after moving from a prison to another he was put in the Wady El Gedid prison. He is 36 years old, single and has bronchitis. He did not continue his education, because he was working in order to get money for his family. The family cannot visit him regularly because of the bad living conditions.
3- Ragab Mohamed Abdel Naby was detained on the 15th of June 1994 and was moved from a prison to another until he was put in the prison of Wady El Gedid. He is 28 years old, single, and got a diploma in industrial studies. He is sick, has a skin disease and the family made many complaints and got many permissions for their releases, but they were never executed. The family suffers, because it does not have enough money and the three sons are detained, while the father can not carry the load all alone because he is old and sick and he is asking the officials to release his sons or to put them in one prison together.
Tenth family
Four members of this family were detained and in the year 2001 one of them got his release but the rest are still in prison. Here is the story said by their father to the EOHR:" My sons do not contact bad people, but they were detained during the period, when everybody was being arrested in Upper Egypt. They do not have any extremist ideas and they got more than 100 release permissions but these decisions were never executed. And I am a blind man and I need someone to help me, because I am not capable of working, meeting the basic needs of my family, and visiting my sons since they are not put in one prison".
1- Ossama Abdel Naby Nagib Aly was detained during the year 1994 and was moved from a prison to another until he was kept in the Wady El Gedid prison. He is 35 years old, married and has one eight-year old son. His wife does not work and she and her son have many illnesses and the son has bronchitis and he needs regular medication, and the wife does not have enough money to visit her husband, because of the bad financial condition.
2- Emad Abdel Naby Nagib Aly was imprisoned in the year 1993 and after moving from one prison to another he was put in the Fayoum prison. He is 37 years old, single and got the commerce diploma and he suffers from many diseases (peptic ulcer- bronchitis) and the family cannot afford to visit him regularly because the father is sick and because of the shortage in money. Although he got many release permissions, still they were never executed.
3- Yasser Abdel Naby Nagib Aly was imprisoned in the year 1995 and was moved from a prison to another until they put him in the Wady El Gedid prison. He is 25 years old, married, but his wife left the house because of the long duration of her husband's imprisonment. He has bronchitis and his family asks the officials to take into consideration its bad living conditions and to release the three sons or at least to put them in one prison, because of the health condition of the father and the bad financial situation of the family.
Eleventh family
Two members of this family were detained and their mother explains that the two sons suffer from many diseases since they entered the prison. She also says that the family has many financial problems, because it was expected that the two sons will take charge of the family and provide all the necessary money when they grow up, but this was not the case because of their imprisonment. Adding to this the fact that the two sons are put in two different prisons and this requires lots of money in order to be able to visit them.
1- Essam El Din Abdel Naby Abdel Hakim was detained during the month of April 1994 and moved from a prison to another until he was kept in the prison of Tora. He is 30 years old, single and has bronchitis and his family does not visit him on a regular basis because of the bad financial situation.
2- Alaa El Din Abdel Naby Abdel Hakim was imprisoned in November 1994 and after moving from a prison to another he was put in the Wady El Gedid prison. He is 27 years old, single and has general tiredness and the family is not able to visit him regularly and to provide him with the necessary medication. That is why the family is asking the officials to release the two sons so they would be financially in charge of the family.
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