Westerners’ Smuggled Letters Offer Rare Glimpse of Egyptian Prisons
The prisoners were stripped, beaten and had their heads shaved. They slept packed “like sardines” on concrete floors of overcrowded cells infested with cockroaches. One said that an open wound on his arm was left oozing, that a cellmate suffered a heart attack without getting medical attention, and that another prisoner was 11 years old.
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