The Committee for Justice (CFJ) submitted a general allegation letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteurs on torture and health, concerning eight deaths in custody documented in Egypt during June 2026.
CFJ documented that six of the deaths resulted from denial of medical care, medical neglect, and unsafe detention conditions, while two deaths raised serious concerns of torture and ill-treatment. The cases occurred in prisons and police stations, including Badr Prison, Liman Minya Prison, Mashtoul Al-Souk Police Station, Al-Labban Police Station, Rod Al-Farag Police Station, and Borg El-Arab Prison.
The letter warns that these deaths form part of a broader and persistent pattern of deaths in custody in Egypt, where persons deprived of liberty continue to face torture, deliberate medical neglect, overcrowding, poor ventilation, ineffective investigations, forensic reports manipulation, and entrenched impunity.
CFJ urged the UN mandates to get into dialogue with the Egyptian authorities, request detailed information on the circumstances of each death, and call for prompt, independent, impartial, transparent, and effective investigations in line with the Minnesota Protocol. CFJ also called on Egypt to adopt urgent preventive measures, including timely access to adequate medical care, emergency hospital transfers, independent medical examinations, regular judicial inspections, reduced overcrowding, adequate ventilation, and full compliance with the Nelson Mandela Rules.
