Interior Ministry claims jailed former Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad in cell

Thursday 08-10-2015 04:11 PM
Interior Ministry claims jailed former Brotherhood spokesman Gehad el-Haddad in cell

Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad - personal profile

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CAIRO, Oct 8 (Aswat Masriya) - Egypt's Interior Ministry told Aswat Masriya Thursday that the Muslim Brotherhood's former spokesman Gehad el-Haddad was transferred to the prison hospital yesterday for a regular check up and then moved back to his cell upon his own request.

On October 4, el-Haddad's brother Abdullah wrote on his twitter account that Gehad "had been taken to hospital from his prison cell after collapsing from malnutrition & deprivation of basic needs."

He went on to say "we hold the coup authorities responsible for his well being and that of the other 40,000 political prisoners, adding that El-Haddad's family has not been given any information about Gehad condition nor visitation rights and that "they don't know if he is dead or alive".

Aswat Masriya was unable to reach any members of Gehad's family to corroberate the latest Interior Ministry statement concerning Gehad.

His mother Mona Imam had written in a Facebook post on October 5 that Gehad was transferred to Torah Hospital and detained there after fainting while in solitary confinement, explaining that he suffers from anemia and that prison authorities had repeatedly refused to allow iron supplements to be delivered to him in prison. 

"Gehad has lost 35 kg of weight over the past four months as a result of their policy of starvation," she wrote on Facebook. 

The last time Gehad's brother Abdullah mentioned Gehad on Twitter was on October 5 when he demanded "once again [his] release and that of all political prisoners being subjected to a slow-death policy in #Egypt". 

El-Haddad was arrested in September 2013 following a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood since the military ouster of President Mohammed Mursi earlier that year.

El-Haddad was the Senior Adviser on Foreign Affairs to the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party from May 2011 until his arrest.

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