I’ve received updates on the Sinai detainees, currently incarcerated in the Tora Prison compound.
The Sinai 3’s hunger strike in Liman Tora prison has ended sometime last week after it lasted for roughly 20 days. The detainees, I’ve learned, are planning a new hunger strike, but I couldn’t find out when.
More worryingly, I’ve learned that a number of the Sinai detainees in Istiqbal Tora prison, awaiting trial for the Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab bombings, have been given papers that included ready-made confessions, by State Security agents who asked the detainees to memorize them and repeat them in front of the Prosecutor. The detainees, I was also told, were forced to sign and/or stamp papers while they were blindfolded, without being told of their content. One of the detainees for example, I was told, signed at least five papers.