EX-HRW director calls on Egypt to release elderly prisoners

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Executive Director*of*Democracy*for the*Arab World Now (DAWN), Sarah Leah*Whitson,*yesterday called on Egyptian authorities to release elderly prisoners. In a*video*posted on Twitter by Batel Campaign, Whitson said: "I am speaking today to make an urgent appeal to Egyptian authorities and those who have influence with the Egyptian authorities to move to release the elderly prisoners from Egypt's detention centres." She added: "There really is no serious security reason to justify their continued detention. We know that there are over 7,000 detainees who are over 60 years of age, many of them are political prisoners. We know that there are at least 1,500 extremely sick detainees." "Detainees," she continued, face "inadequate food, inadequate medical care and inadequate sanitary conditions." "We know that detainees […]

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