The Committee for Justice (CFJ) has monitored the second death in 2025 of a political detainee at Borg El Arab prison in Alexandria due to medical negligence.
The committee stated that the deceased political detainee, Saad El-Sayed El-Sayed Madin (57 years old), from the village of Al-Azizia in the Minya El-Qamh district of Sharkia Governorate, who worked as an Arabic language supervisor at the Ministry of Education, died as a result of intentional medical negligence and poor detention conditions.
For its part, CFJ demands the opening of impartial, swift, and transparent investigations to uncover the circumstances of the death, hold those responsible for these practices accountable, and ensure they are not granted impunity.
This death marks the second such case reported by CFJ since the beginning of 2025 inside prisons and detention facilities in Egypt, following the documentation of 50 deaths in 2024.
Comprehensive information on deaths in detention in Egypt is available through the “Justice Watch Archive,” a service offered by the Committee for Justice. This archive includes detailed data on over 14,000 victims, more than 30,000 violations, and monitors abuses across more than 500 detention centers in Egypt.
