The three Sinai defendants sentenced to death by a kangaroo court last November are currently on a hunger strike protesting the verdicts and their prison conditions, according to their families. I could not confirm the exact date for the start of the strike, as the prisoners’ families were only allowed few minute visits, but it seems the strike have started roughly a week or ten days ago.
After banning visits since September, the families of Younis Abu Garir, Osama al-Nakhlawi and Mohammed Jaez Sabbah can only see their sons now once a month, as they wait on death row. Last Thursday, the families stood outside prison from 8am till 2:30pm before they were allowed to see their sons for few minutes. The prison guards forced the families to taste every single dish of food they brought to the prisoners, and refused to let them give the prisoners extra blankets they badly need in their freezing cells.
The three are incarcerated in Liman Tora Prison, in separate cells with criminals. One of the demands the hunger strikers is to be transferred back to Istiqbal Tora, with the rest of the political detainees.