The Committee for Justice (CFJ) has documented the death of a political detainee at Olad Saqr Police Station in Sharqia Governorate due to deliberate medical negligence.
The committee reported that the detainee, Abdelaziz Abdelghani Mohamed (62 years old), a retired employee, suffered from acute intestinal obstruction throughout the 25 days since his detention began.
The CFJ explained that “Mohamed’s” medical condition required urgent surgical intervention; however, security authorities—on orders from the National Security Agency—delayed providing the necessary medical care, leading to a deterioration in his health and his death inside the police station.
The CFJ condemns the deliberate medical negligence by the management of Olad Saqr Police Station, holds the Egyptian authorities accountable for the detainee’s death, and demands an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death, prosecution of those responsible, and an end to impunity.
With this case, the number of deaths documented by the CFJ inside prisons and detention centers in Egypt since the beginning of 2025 has risen to 17. This follows the documentation of 50 deaths during the previous year, 2024.
Verified information about deaths during detention in Egypt can be obtained through the “Justice Watch Archive,” a service provided by the CFJ. It contains information on over 14,000 victims and more than 30,000 violations, monitoring abuses across over 500 detention sites in Egypt
