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  • The Case
    • Their Story
    • Human Rights Landscape in Egypt
    • Our Demands
  • Dr. Essam
    • Biography
    • History of Arrests
    • Charges and Sentencing
    • Detention, Conditions and Abuse
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  • Case Updates
    Case Update: Gehad Further Subjected To Extreme Conditions After His Acquittal

    Case Update: Gehad Further Subjected To Extreme Conditions After His Acquittal

    Case Update: UN Warns that Dr Essam and Gehad El-Haddad are Effectively Being Killed in Prison

    Case Update: UN Warns that Dr Essam and Gehad El-Haddad are Effectively Being Killed in Prison

    UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

    UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

    UN WGAD Calls for Dr Essam and Gehad’s Immediate Release

    UN WGAD Calls for Dr Essam and Gehad’s Immediate Release

    Free Haddad Campaign Update: Gehad is Found Innocent; Dr Essam is Sentenced to 10 years

    Free Haddad Campaign Update: Gehad is Found Innocent; Dr Essam is Sentenced to 10 years

  • Legal Update
    Campaign Update: Family Submits Appeal to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Council Special Procedure Groups

    Campaign Update: Family Submits Appeal to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Council Special Procedure Groups

    Campaign Update: Dr Essam and Gehad witness President Mohamed Morsi Collapse in the Courtroom

    Campaign Update: Dr Essam and Gehad witness President Mohamed Morsi Collapse in the Courtroom

    Court hearing exposes Gehad and Dr Esam deprived of food and sunlight

    Court hearing exposes Gehad and Dr Esam deprived of food and sunlight

    Gehad addresses the court calling for accountability

    Gehad addresses the court calling for accountability

    Judge orders improved conditions for Gehad

    Judge orders improved conditions for Gehad

  • Human Rights Reports
    UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

    UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

    POMED: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

    POMED: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

    Amnesty International: Egypt: End Gehad el-Haddad's Solitary Confinement and Denial of Medical Care

    Amnesty International: Egypt: End Gehad el-Haddad's Solitary Confinement and Denial of Medical Care

    Amnesty International: Egypt Crushing Humanity: The Abuse of Solitary Confinement in Egypt's Prisons

    Amnesty International: Egypt Crushing Humanity: The Abuse of Solitary Confinement in Egypt's Prisons

  • Media
    Before it’s too late: On my imprisoned father and others

    Before it’s too late: On my imprisoned father and others

    Jailed Brotherhood Spokesman Disciplined for New York Times Article

    Jailed Brotherhood Spokesman Disciplined for New York Times Article

    I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist

    I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist

    After a Visit Ban, Family of Essam Al-Haddad Discover He Was Transferred to Hospital

    After a Visit Ban, Family of Essam Al-Haddad Discover He Was Transferred to Hospital

    Senior Morsi Aides Transferred to Cairo Prison; Charges yet to be Filed

    Senior Morsi Aides Transferred to Cairo Prison; Charges yet to be Filed

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    • US Nationals – Send Letters to Your Senator and House Rep
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Nov 24th 7:20 PM
Media

Before it’s too late: On my imprisoned father and others

Dec 10th 8:54 PM
Campaign Updates

Case Update: Gehad Further Subjected To Extreme Conditions After His Acquittal

Nov 8th 9:34 PM
Case Updates

Case Update: UN Warns that Dr Essam and Gehad El-Haddad are Effectively Being Killed in Prison

Nov 8th 7:39 PM
Case Updates

UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

Oct 24th 8:54 PM
Campaign Updates

UN WGAD Calls for Dr Essam and Gehad’s Immediate Release

Sep 11th 2:45 AM
Case Updates

Free Haddad Campaign Update: Gehad is Found Innocent; Dr Essam is Sentenced to 10 years

Jun 27th 3:03 PM
Case Updates

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

Jun 27th 3:01 PM
Case Updates

POMED: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

Jun 25th 6:26 PM
Case Updates

Campaign Update: Family Submits Appeal to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Council Special Procedure Groups

Jun 17th 9:33 PM
Case Updates

Campaign Update: Dr Essam and Gehad witness President Mohamed Morsi Collapse in the Courtroom

Jun 13th 9:06 PM
Campaign Updates

Campaign Update: Haddad Retrial Begins

Jun 20th 3:16 PM
Case Updates

Court hearing exposes Gehad and Dr Esam deprived of food and sunlight

Jun 7th 3:11 PM
Case Updates

What happened on May 16? More detailed discovered.

Jun 3rd 3:08 PM
Case Updates

Gehad addresses the court calling for accountability

May 28th 9:36 PM
Human Rights Reports

Amnesty International: Egypt: End Gehad el-Haddad’s Solitary Confinement and Denial of Medical Care

May 24th 2:58 PM
Case Updates

Family finds out details of Gehad’s inhumane treatment

May 18th 2:54 PM
Case Updates

Visits denied for 60 days

May 16th 2:51 PM
Case Updates

Gehad punished for Amnesty International Report

May 7th 9:26 PM
Human Rights Reports

Amnesty International: Egypt Crushing Humanity: The Abuse of Solitary Confinement in Egypt’s Prisons

May 7th 8:00 PM
Case Updates

Amnesty International releases a report documenting the human rights violations against Essam and Gehad

Latest Updates

Case Update: Gehad Further Subjected To Extreme Conditions After His Acquittal

Case Update: Gehad Further Subjected To Extreme Conditions After His Acquittal

Case Updates
Dec 10th, 2019162
Case Update: UN Warns that Dr Essam and Gehad El-Haddad are Effectively Being Killed in Prison

Case Update: UN Warns that Dr Essam and Gehad El-Haddad are Effectively Being Killed in Prison

Case Updates
Nov 8th, 2019200
UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

Human Rights Reports
Nov 8th, 2019114
UN WGAD Calls for Dr Essam and Gehad’s Immediate Release

UN WGAD Calls for Dr Essam and Gehad’s Immediate Release

Case Updates
Oct 24th, 201970

Human Rights Reports

UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk

UN OCHR: UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of Dr Essam Gehad and other inmates at severe risk November 8th, 2019

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo June 27th, 2019

POMED: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

POMED: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo June 27th, 2019

Amnesty International: Egypt: End Gehad el-Haddad's Solitary Confinement and Denial of Medical Care

Amnesty International: Egypt: End Gehad el-Haddad's Solitary Confinement and Denial of Medical Care May 28th, 2018

Media

Before it’s too late: On my imprisoned father and others

Before it’s too late: On my imprisoned father and others November 24th, 2021

Jailed Brotherhood Spokesman Disciplined for New York Times Article

Jailed Brotherhood Spokesman Disciplined for New York Times Article February 28th, 2017

I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist

I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist February 22nd, 2017

After a Visit Ban, Family of Essam Al-Haddad Discover He Was Transferred to Hospital

After a Visit Ban, Family of Essam Al-Haddad Discover He Was Transferred to Hospital October 16th, 2016

Legal Updates

Campaign Update: Family Submits Appeal to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Council Special Procedure Groups

Campaign Update: Family Submits Appeal to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Human Rights Council Special Procedure Groups

Legal Update
Jun 25th, 2019125
Campaign Update: Dr Essam and Gehad witness President Mohamed Morsi Collapse in the Courtroom

Campaign Update: Dr Essam and Gehad witness President Mohamed Morsi Collapse in the Courtroom

Legal Update
Jun 17th, 2019159
Court hearing exposes Gehad and Dr Esam deprived of food and sunlight

Court hearing exposes Gehad and Dr Esam deprived of food and sunlight

Legal Update
Jun 20th, 2018218
Legal Update

Gehad addresses the court calling for accountability

Jun 3rd, 2018136
Gehad El-haddad addressed the court in his trial today: "I have been held in pretrial detention for this...
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5 years ago

20 November 2017

Dr. Essam El-Haddad, assistant to President Morsi for foreign affairs, appeared before court in his trial yesterday. Seven days since his hunger strike, he was very weak, fading from time to time and could not speak or walk. With the help of two inmates, he was carried on a chair by his son Gehad – also imprisoned in the same notorious Scorpion prison and under trial in the same case. When they reached the sound-proof glass cage they laid him on a ground.

Gehad – using signs- told his family who was attending the session that El-Haddad blood sugar level was 41 mg/dL just before leaving prison, far below the least normal blood sugar level when fasting which is 72 mg/dL.

After four years in solitary imprisonment, El-Haddad, 64, developed an ischemic heart disease, inguinal hernia, prostatic enlargement, rheumatoid arthritis and hypertension beside knees and back pain. He has been denied proper medical care since his imprisonment. Two of his inmates died before his eyes due to medical negligence and extremely inhumane prison conditions.

Due to his condition, a doctor was called by court to examine Essam vital signs. According to court, his blood sugar was 50 mg/dL but El-Haddad refused to take glucose solutions.

Gehad expressed his father’s wish to speak to court. He explained that his father had 4 heart attacks and is currently suffering from serious heart condition. The prison refused to let him see a cardiologist since his first heart attack a year ago, despite a court order in the previous session.

Dr. El-Haddad could not stand to reach the microphone inside the sound-proof glass cage. The judge refused to bring him another mike or to let him speak outside the cage. He promised that he would let El-Haddad speak at the end of session if he agreed to take glucose solutions.

After accepting solutions, the judge refused to let El-Haddad speak despite repeated demands from inmates and lawyers. Moreover, he read El-Haddad’s medical measurements after taking the solution claiming blood sugar reached 310, a number far beyond the highest blood sugar level in normal people after meals which is 140!

Furthermore, El-Haddad's wife was summoned by security officers during the session. She was denied the right to attend the rest of the session with no reason.

El-Haddad has been denied proper food, clean water and daily recess time outside his cell. He sleeps on the cold floor without mattresses or covers. Basic personal belongings are also denied including medications, clothes, books, paper and pen.

Stop torture, provide basic health conditions in prison, and treatment from his heart disease are the three reasons for El-Haddad’s strike. He demands to be considered a human, no more.
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5 years ago

Essam EL-Haddad starts a hunger strike

15th November 2017

Dr. Essam El-Haddad, 64 years old, has started a full hunger strike at Scorpion prison since Monday, 13th November 2017. EL-Haddad has been held in a 4 square meter airtight underground solitary confinement cell, with no windows and only a slit in the door, for more than 4 years. He is allowed to walk out of his cell only one hour every day but just in an inner corridor. He was deprived, as well as his colleagues, from going out in the sun since last February (10 months). He does not have any bed or mattresses and has to sleep on the floor since last February as well.

EL-Haddad suffered from a chest pain on 15th October 2016 and was only allowed after 11 months, on 25th September 2017, to do medical perfusion imaging for diagnosis. His medical report states that he suffers from moderate ischemia of the left side of the heart and ventricular hypertrophy and coronary artery deficiency nourishing the left side of his heart. EL-Haddad asked to be examined by a cardiologist but his request was refused.

EL-Haddad’s family consulted a cardiologist from Al Kasr Al Ainy, where EL-Haddad had his myocardial perfusion imaging on 25th September 2017, for diagnosis according to his medical report and were told that he urgently needs a cardiac catheterization operation and an installation of a stent in his affected coronary artery. His family tried few days ago to send some drugs suitable for his case but the prison authorities refused. EL-Haddad needs urgently to change the drugs he is taking because some of his previous drugs are dangerous for his case.

Despite recognising his critical case, prison authorities had left him more than 11 months since his heart attack without giving him any medical assistance, referring him to a cardiologist or allowing him to receive medications from his family.

The conditions in EL-Haddad’s cell are extremely dangerous for his case. It is well known that angina can be easily precipitated by cold and stress conditions which he suffers most in his solitary cell. He is forced to eat prison food which is considered too poor to eat. No fresh food, fruit, vegetables, milk and honey are allowed. As a result of this very unhealthy diet along with forbidding him from buying any food from the prison’s cafeteria, EL-Haddad lost 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of his weight.

EL-Haddad already has a strong family history of heart diseases and cerebral haemorrhagic stroke that previously caused the death of his father and affected his elder brother. Moreover, inside scorpion prison, there are no facilities for the diagnosis and treatment for such medical heart conditions.

EL-Haddad has long exceeded the provisional detention period and was never interrogated or even questioned by the prosecutor. During his 4 years of detention, he met with his lawyer for only 10 minutes in 2014.

The family of Essam EL-Haddad calls for an urgent action to save him.

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6 years ago
Gehad El-Haddad

Gehad El-Haddad, son of Dr. Essam El-Haddad, enters a hunger strike. Reasons below.
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The family of Gehad El-Haddad has confirmed that he entered an open-ended hunger strike

After languishing in utter isolation for two weeks in his solitary cell. Gehad, the spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood, began the strike on February 27th. Scorpion prison authorities locked Gehad in his cell, depriving him from food and medication since February 22, 2017 after the NYT ran his op-ed titled “I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist”. Prison officials also closed shut the only slot in the cell’s door with a metal cover attached from outside. Shouting through this slot is the only way inmates in solitary cells communicate with each other and call for help when needed. Gehad was completely locked down with no recess time outside the cell and none of his inmates could check on his well-being.
Gehad was also prevented from buying food or drinking water from prison canteen. He was forced to eat the prison food and water that has caused several poisoning incidents among inmates before. In addition, Scorpion cells are designed so that no direct sunlight or sufficient airflow would enter them.
During his custody Gehad developed severe anemia and lost 35 kilograms of his weight due to malnutrition. Prison officials raided and emptied Gehad’s and other prisoners’ cells on Saturday February 26, 2017. They took everything including medicines, clothes and empty plastic bottles. In response Gehad started a hunger strike the following day February 27.
Gehad's family has been banned from visiting him since September 2016. The family holds the Interior Ministry, prison authorities and the National Human Rights Council, where the family has filed several complaints on his condition, responsible for his life and well-being.
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6 years ago
I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist

Gehad El-Haddad from prison: I Am a Member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Not a Terrorist

I am in prison for our commitment to peaceful political change.

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