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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

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    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

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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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, 2019252
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, 2019341
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, 2019266
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, 2019138

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, 2019221
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, 2019204
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, 2018260
Legal Update

Gehad addresses the court calling for accountability

Jun 3rd, 2018191
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إصابة د. عصام الحداد بأزمة قلبية والسجن يرفض علاجه ويمنع زيارة أسرته

نقلا عن د. @منى امام زوجة د. عصام الحداد:
“علمنا من الزيارات اليوم بان زوجى الدكتور #عصام_الحداد أصيب بأزمة قلبية و لم يتم توفير الحد الأدنى الضرورى لمثل هذه الحالة بنقله إلى أى مستشفى لعمل رسم القلب على الأقل!
تخيل أن تعانى من آلام واضطراب شديد فى ضربات قلبك و أنت فى زنزانة انفرادى .. و يظل زملاؤك فى العنبر لساعات طويلة يطرقون على الأبواب فى محاولة لإستدعاء الحارس حتى يتفضل و يأتى إلى العنبر .. و بعد كل ذلك لا أحد يستطيع عمل شىء لأنه ببساطة لا يوجد أى إمكانيات لإسعافك او حتى تشخيص حالتك !
سجن به أكثر من ألف معتقل .. كثير منهم فوق الستين و يعانون من امراض الضغط و القلب و السكر فضلا عن امراض الشيخوخة و لا يوجد فيه أى إمكانيات .. آخرهم قياس الضغط و ربما تعليق محلول و ذلك بحكم وجود حالات إضراب كثيرة فى العقرب و يعانون من نوبات إغماء متكررة .. !!
ماذا تستطيع أن تفعل حينئذ ؟ أليست هذه هى الطريقة المثلى لقتلك " قتل طبى نظيف "!!
هذا هو الحال فى السجون المصرية .. فى كل مرة نقرأ نفس التفاصيل .. و لا شىء يتغير سوى اسم المعتقل الذى يموت .. هذا ليس إهمال طبى و لكن "#قتل_طبى_متعمد ".!!
أنا لا أعلم ما حدث مع زوجى لانه ليس معه أدوية لمثل هذه الحالة .. و لكن معه مرضى قلب فى العنبر.
لقد منعوا الزيارة عن زوجى منذ أمس و رفضوا عرضه على أخصائى و نقله لمستشفى لعمل الفحوصات الأساسية لمثل حالته !!
الدكتور عصام الحداد يحتاج الآن .. الآن و ليس بعد ٦ شهور او سنة كما حدث معه سابقا .. يحتاج للعرض على أخصائى قلب و عمل رسم قلب و سائر الفحوصات !!
و يتحمل مسئولو إدارة العقرب و مصلحة السجون و وزارة الداخلية المسئولية الكاملة عن حالة زوجى الصحية “!
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Essam El-Haddad has a heart attack, Prison denies him medical treatment

Essam El-Haddad’s wife Dr. Mona Emam said on Sunday that her husband had a heart attack in the infamous Scorpion prison in Cairo, and the prison refused to provide him any medical treatment.

The family received the news from other prisoners' families who were visiting their relatives. The prison administration refused to provide El-Haddad’s family with any details of his condition and prevented them from visiting him.

El-Haddad has been detained for the fourth year in the notorious Scorpion prison, where six inmates died last year. Human Rights Watch recently described Scorpion as “the end of the state’s repressive pipeline” and documented abuses against El-Haddad and his son Gehad in a report entitled “We Are in Tombs: Abuses in Egypt’s Scorpion Prison" [Link http://www.hrw.org/node/294235].
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Essam and Gehad El-Haddad start a hunger strike

17 February 2016

Dr. Essam El-Haddad, national security adviser to President Morsi, and Gehad El-Haddad, former spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood, started a hunger strike this week to protest mistreatment by prison officials, and the demeaning treatment of their families in Al-Akrab maximum security prison in Cairo.

Essam El-Haddad objected when prison officials broke into his cell and insulted him. In response to his protests, officials deprived him from his right to get outside his solitary cell to the prison yard for a week. Dr. El-Haddad declared, “I am 63 and close to death but I will die with dignity.” He has been on a hunger strike since then.

He was threatened that his health won’t bear such strike but he insisted and a day later prison officials retreated. But the family later knew from their lawyer that the whole prison, including Gehad El-Haddad, went on strike against ill-treatment and the humiliating conditions of family visits.

Al-Akrab banned family visits to prisoners from January 24 to February 10, 2016. When visits were resumed, only 30 families were allowed to visit on a day in a prison that hosts more than 1,000 detainees. As a result, families had to sleep in the street outside the prison gate the night before their visits to make sure they will be allowed to visit their detainees next day.

On February 14th, prison guards assaulted the families who refused to leave after being denied the right to see their relatives. Four women were beaten and briefly arrested, and many fell to the ground after being violently pushed by the guards.

Prison officials also recently closed the door sashes which were the only open slot in Al-Akrab solitary cells, and the only way prisoners managed to check if anyone of them was ill or is being assaulted. More than seven detainees died last year in Al-Akrab due to forced starvation and denial of medications or medical attention.

El-Haddad and his son are approaching three years in prison. They are held in inhumane conditions and are deprived from many of their basic rights. For more information on violations against them please check the family rolling statement:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m68ceoxCeDxeCk_ZXwKmWs92FyAVJ4B1NWgc338IFIM/edit?usp=sharing

or contact:

Abdullah El-Haddad abdeelhaddad@gmail.com
Aisha El-Haddad aishaelhaddad@hotmail.com

عصام وجهاد الحداد يبدآن إضرابا مفتوحا عن الطعام

17 فبراير 2016

بدأ كل من د. عصام الحداد، مساعد الرئيس مرسي لشئون العلاقات الخارجية والتعاون الدولي، وجهاد الحداد، المتحدث الإعلامي باسم جماعة الإخوان المسلمين سابقا، إضرابا مفتوحا عن الطعام احتجاجا علي سوء معاملتهم وإهانة أسرتهم خلال محاولتها زيارتهم في سجن العقرب شديد الحراسة.

فقد حاولت د. مني إمام زوجة د. عصام الحداد زيارته هذا الأسبوع في سجن العقرب مرتين: مرة ذهبت أمام السجن في الثانية بعد منتصف الليل وعادت بعدها ب 10 ساعات دون زيارة بعد ما أخرج مسئولو السجن الجنود للأهالي ودفعوهم بعيدا عن البوابة حتي أوقعوا بعضهم أرضا واعتدوا علي 4 نساء بالضرب واحتجزوهن، والمرة الثانية كانت بالأمس الساعة 4 فجرا وبالكاد دخلت زوجة د. عصام الزيارة لأنهم سمحوا فقط ب35 زيارة للعقرب الذي يضم قرابة ألف معتقل وكانت هي رقم 33، ومنعوا باقي الأهالي بعد كل هذا الانتظار.

لم تتجاوز الزيارة عشر دقائق، وقد منعها مسئولو سجن العقرب من إدخال مستلزمات طبية أساسية أوصي بها طبيب السجن نفسه، وكذلك منعوا أحد الأدوية ومنعوا إدخال أي طعام عدا ما لا يكفي لطفل صغير، ومنعوا إدخال ملابس داخلية شتوية وأي شي آخر.

وقد أبلغ د. عصام الحداد زوجته أنهم اقتحموا عليه زنزانته الجرداء الأسبوع الماضي وفتشوه بطريقة مهينة فاحتج علي الإهانة والسباب وطريقة التفتيش فعاقبوه بالمنع من التريض لمدة أسبوع (التريض هو الخروج من الزنزانة إلي الممر بين الزنازين وأحيانا إلي باحة صغيرة بين عنابر السجن، مع العلم أنه محبوس في زنزانة انفرادية منذ سنتين ليس فيها أي فتحة غير مغلقة سوي نظارة الباب التي أغلقت بعد زيارة المجلس القومي لحقوق الإنسان للسجن الشهر الماضي) وحين منعوه من التريض أعلن د. عصام دخوله في إضراب مفتوح عن الطعام وقال لهم: "أنا عمري 63 سنة واقتربت من الموت وسأموت بكرامتي".

حاول مسئولو السجن التفاوض معه للعدول عن الإضراب وهددوه بأن صحته لن تحتمل وما إلي ذلك لكنه أصر، وفي اليوم الثاني أو الثالث لإضرابه عن الطعام تراجعوا وسمحوا له بحقه في التريض (ويبدو أنه عاد للإضراب بعدها حيث علمت الأسرة مساء يوم الزيارة بدخول معظم معتقلي العقرب – بما فيهم جهاد الحداد - في إضراب شبه كامل).

كذلك أكد د. عصام أنهم لا يسمحون لهم في السجن بأي نوع من الأكواب سوي أنصاف زجاجات مياه بلاستيكية قديمة تنكمش عند صب مياه ساخنة فيها (وهي الوسيلة الوحيدة للتدفئة في ظل عدم السماح بإدخال ملابس شتوية أو أغطية لهم) ومعلوم أن هذه الزجاجات البلاستيكية تتفاعل مع الحرارة العالية بشدة وتكون مسرطنة وقاتلة وهم مضطرون لاستخدامها حتي لا يموتوا بردا.
وأكد الحداد أيضا أن موضوع إغلاق نظارة الباب مدمر للمعتقلين لأنها كانت الوسيلة الوحيدة ليعلموا ما إذا وقع لأحدهم سوء أو اعتداء أو مرض في زنزانته (مع العلم أنه توفي في عنبر د. عصام الحداد فقط في السنة الماضية 3 معتقلين بسبب التجويع ومنع الأدوية والمستلزمات الطبية والإهمال حتي الموت).

وقبل أن تنتهي الزيارة قال د. عصام الحداد لزوجته: أخبرتهم أنتم تقتلوننا بالبطيء وبعلمكم لكننا سنموت بكرامتنا.
لمزيد من المعلومات حول الانتهاكات التي يتعرض د. عصام الحداد ونجله جهاد الحداد برجاء الرجوع للبيان الإعلامي للأسرة الذي يتم تحديثه باستمرار علي:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19INOH3TQ1WCcH16O6GprWuHR1rkdSKYHEhxdsH5nynY/edit?usp=sharing
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