Arabic press review: Businessman is fourth to die in Egyptian prisons in 2022

Fourth dying in Egyptian prisons in 2022

Egyptian lawyer Ahmed Helmy has revealed how a household was shocked to find that their imprisoned relative had been useless for greater than per week after Egyptian jail authorities did not notify them.

The Egyptian Community for Human Rights (ENHR) posted on its official Fb saying: “A brand new dying occurred in jail: Tamer Fikri Gamal El-Din (50 years), a service provider and a mosque preacher…within the Kirdasah city in Giza Governorate. He was serving a ten-year imprisonment sentence in case No. 11 of 2017.”

The EHNR mentioned it was “deplorable” that El-Din’s household had not been notified of his dying for greater than per week after he died, and that that they had solely found his passing throughout an everyday go to to see him in jail.

“It’s unlucky and painful that he died over per week in the past and was transferred to hospital by the jail administration with out notifying his household of his dying, and it allow them to go to him on the time of the common go to…then they had been shocked by the information of his dying,” the organisation mentioned.

El-Din’s dying is the fourth in lower than two months, in keeping with impartial human rights organisations, which accuse the Egyptian authorities of participating in deliberate medical neglect of prisoners.

In 2021, 60 detainees died inside Egyptian prisons, in keeping with the human rights organisation We Document, which mentioned that the 60 detainees embrace 52 political prisoners, whereas the opposite eight had been accused of legal costs.

Norway name to cease demolitions in Jerusalem

Norway has reaffirmed calls for for Israel to halt evacuations of Palestinian residents and the demolition of their properties in Israeli-occupied Jerusalem, in unique feedback to Arabi 21.

International ministry spokeswoman Guri Solberg mentioned that Oslo is intently following “fear developments” in Jerusalem and fears that “the tensions in Sheikh Jarrah could erupt a brand new wave of violence”.

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Solberg affirmed in unique feedback to the Arabi 21 web site that Norway had “known as on the Israeli authorities to cease the evacuation and demolition of properties” in Jerusalem.

She clarified that “Oslo considers the Israeli settlements within the occupied territories, together with the jap a part of the occupied metropolis of Jerusalem, unlawful”.

“The Norwegian authorities helps native initiatives of civil society organisations that work to guard the rights of Palestinian residents, and supply authorized help to problem demolition orders issued by the municipality.

“It additionally helps the organisations that defend the Palestinians’ proper to specific themselves freely within the media with regard to the state of affairs there.”

Most cancers sufferers left to die in Lebanon

Most cancers sufferers in Lebanon are struggling as a result of lack of medicines with lots of them dying of their properties as a result of lack of ability to obtain remedy in hospital, in keeping with a report revealed by the Saudi newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat.

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Hani Nassar, head of an affiliation specialising in supporting most cancers sufferers, confirmed that there have been 30,000 most cancers sufferers yearly in Lebanon, and 18,000 new instances yearly.

‘Some hospitals began extorting sufferers after their payments [increased], the matter that forces a whole lot to remain of their properties ready for dying’

– Hani Nassar, Lebanese most cancers help

Nonetheless, he says that the disaster is now not in numbers or within the excessive charges of the illness, however fairly the “lack of ability to safe medication and remedy for sufferers, which results in the dying of a lot of them of their properties”.

“There’s a scarcity of drugs, it’s unavailable for all sufferers. Lots of them obtain remedy for a interval of a month, then they can’t safe it for 2 subsequent months, which impacts the method of their restoration, and results in the dying of a few of them.

“Furthermore, even when some others acquire their medicines, they’re unable to cowl the prices of hospitals. Some hospitals began extorting sufferers after their payments [increased], the matter that forces a whole lot to remain of their properties ready for dying,” mentioned Nassar, in keeping with the newspaper.

“Some medicines are unavailable for months, which necessitated us to seek for different medicines in international locations reminiscent of India, as we search to safe communication between the affected person and the producers to acquire his medicines at cheap costs in comparison with the costs of medicines manufactured in Europe.”

Lebanon is witnessing a crucial scarcity of medicines for most cancers and incurable illnesses, which had been subsidised by the Financial institution of Lebanon, not like different medicines that had been unsupported in current months.

The top of Lebanon’s parliamentary well being committee, Assem Araji, defined that “beforehand the Central Financial institution of Lebanon was supporting these medicines with an quantity of $115m, [but] the quantity is at the moment restricted to $35m, of which $10m goes to help of medical provides, which is an inadequate quantity.”