The Committee for Justice has documented a series of grave violations committed against female political detainees held inside the Rehabilitation (4) facility at the 10th of Ramadan Prison, as part of systematic policies that restrict their basic rights and contravene both national and international standards for the treatment of prisoners.
According to the violations documented by CFJ, female political detainees are deprived of their right to exercise, outdoor access, and exposure to sunlight. They are only allowed limited indoor walking within the corridors of the wards, without any actual access to outdoor exercise yards — posing a direct threat to their physical and psychological well-being.
CFJ also documented several cases of medical neglect affecting multiple detainees, in addition to poor water quality inside the ward, which has caused the spread of dermatological conditions among the detainees. This comes amid the absence of adequate health care and the authorities’ failure to respond to repeated complaints filed by the detainees.
Information obtained by CFJ further indicates that detainees are subjected to ill‑treatment by prison administration personnel, including various forms of harassment and abusive treatment. They are also subjected to arbitrary restrictions on family visits, along with exploitative practices targeting detainees’ families through unnecessarily complicated procedures and unjustified obstacles — deepening the suffering of the detainees and their relatives.
CFJ affirms that these practices constitute a flagrant violation of the rights of female political detainees and stand in clear contradiction to the Egyptian Constitution and the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules).
The Committee for Justice calls for an immediate end to all violations committed against female political detainees in the 10th of Ramadan Prison, ensuring their right to exercise, adequate health care, improved water quality and detention conditions, an end to restrictions on visits, and the accountability of those responsible for these violations — in a manner that safeguards the detainees’ human dignity and safety.