Egyptian security agencies in mid-November 2020 introduced changes in Cairo’s Maximum Security Prison 992, known as Scorpion Prison, that almost completely deprive inmates of adequate ventilation, electricity, and hot water, HRW stated in a new report.
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Impunity for police torturers continues
A court in Qena acquitted a policeman and gave another officer a suspended one-year prison sentence, for torturing a worker in custody to death.
Police torturers sentenced to 3 years in prison
9 policemen from Al-Amiriya Police Station have been sentenced to only three years in prison, for the brutal torture and murder of Magdi Makin, a poor street vendor.