Human Rights Watch: Egypt - Collective Punishment in Scorpion Prison
December 18, 2020
December 18, 2020
NEW YORK, Dec. 18 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on Dec. 17:
Egyptian security agencies in mid-November 2020 introduced changes in Cairo's Maximum Security Prison 992, known as Scorpion Prison, that almost completely deprive inmates of adequate ventilation, electricity, and hot water, Human Rights Watch said today.
The intensified restrictions, following a suspicious incident on September 23 in the prison in which four security force members and . . .
Egyptian security agencies in mid-November 2020 introduced changes in Cairo's Maximum Security Prison 992, known as Scorpion Prison, that almost completely deprive inmates of adequate ventilation, electricity, and hot water, Human Rights Watch said today.
The intensified restrictions, following a suspicious incident on September 23 in the prison in which four security force members and . . .