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UNJUSTLY JAILED POLITICIAN’S SON’S HEALTH AT RISK

UA: Fourth 29.23 Egypt

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Anas al-Beltagy has been arbitrarily detained for nearly 11 years solely due to his family affiliation. Since his arrest in December 2013, the Egyptian authorities have subjected him to a catalogue of human rights violations including enforced disappearance, torture, and other ill-treatment. After Anas al-Beltagy took part in prison hunger strike in June 2024, authorities in the 10th of Ramadan prison placed him in solitary confinement in a so-called “disciplinary cell” for a period of three months, which led to a severe deterioration of his physical and mental health. Additionally, authorities continue to deny him prison visits from his family and lawyers. Anas al-Beltagy must be immediately and unconditionally released.

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Your Excellency,

I write to express my grave concern over the continued arbitrary detention of Anas al-Beltagy who has spent nearly 11 years behind bars solely because he is the son of prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader and former parliamentarian, Mohamed al-Beltagy. Despite courts acquitting him of all charges in four separate cases and a judge’s decision to provisionally release him in a fifth case, he continues to be held in pre-trial detention pending investigations into a separate sixth case on similar spurious terrorism-related accusations. Since his arrest in December 2013, Anas al-Beltagy has been subjected to a catalogue of human rights violations including enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, and the deliberate denial of healthcare.

As Anas al-Beltagy has been banned from any prison visits and other communication since 2017, his family and lawyers only have limited information about him, obtained during online detention renewal hearings or from other prisoners’ families. He is also suffering from other health problems such mouth ulcers that have made it difficult for him to speak and even drink water.

I urge you to ensure that Anas al-Beltagy is immediately and unconditionally released and all charges against him are dropped, as they are brought solely because of his family links and the exercise of his human rights. Pending his release, I call on you to ensure that he is held in conditions meeting international standards for the treatment of prisoners and granted regular access to his family, lawyers, and adequate healthcare.

Yours sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]

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President Abdelfattah al-Sisi

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Al Ittihadia Palace

Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt

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Ambassador Motaz Mounir Zahran

CC: Egyptian Embassy in the United States

3521 International Court, NW,

Washington DC 20008

Fax: +202 244 5131

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