Marawan Sedki Abd El-Aziz Abd El-Aziz
Detention Victim- Date updated
- Jan 18, 2023
- Gender
- Male
- Age group
- 36-60
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession Category
- Other professions
- Background of detention
- Serving a sentence
- Violations
- Arbitrary pretrial detention
- Denial of Medical Care
- Deprivation of liberty
- Enforced disappearance
- Exceptional "Military" trial
- Poor detention conditions
- Torture
- Methods of torture
- Beaten Without legal Cause
- Electricity
- Psychological torture
- Place of detention
Latitude: 30.162111549049875
Longitude: 31.78696165312231
- Place of detention (linked Detention Victim)
- Badr new prison
- Date of Arrest
- Jan 19, 2016
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- state security
- Was S/he trialed?
- Yes
- Summary
He was arrested on 19-1-2016 by a force of the National Security in civilian clothes, and among them was a police secretary affiliated with the National Security, Blazoghli, named Ashraf Nabawi, and during his arrest he was dealt with violently, which led to a broken nose for the victim, and he disappeared from 19-1 -2016 to 21-1-2016 at the National Security in Blazoghli, and during that period he was subjected to torture, as he was beaten in separate parts of his body, electrocuted, cigarettes extinguished on his body, and hung in several different ways to extract some confessions from him, and after that he was transferred to the military prison to complete the period of disappearance from 1-21 -2016 to 8-3-2016 During the period of his detention in the military prison, he was subjected to solitary confinement and was shackled to the wall all the time. He was also forbidden to enter the bathroom except once a day only. During that period, he was presented to the Supreme State Security Prosecution, and he was interrogated informally. According to the family’s account, he was Before going to the investigation, he was injected with an unknown type of syringe that made him almost unconscious, and his presence in the military prison remained unknown to the family until 17-2-2016. It was the first official investigation with him that the family knew about. The result of the report was that the burns he suffered from are 3 months old and their cause is unknown. In that investigation, the victim’s lawyer was unable to know his place of detention, so his place of detention remained unknown until 8-3-2016. He was deported to Tora prison, and according to the family’s account, on January 21, 2016, National Security forces took the victim to an apartment in the Al-Libini area of Al-Haram, and they wanted to photograph him there. Some explosives, and before the implementation of this story, and during the investigation with the 4 accused inside the apartment, and the victim was still in the microbus, a dog present with the security force inside the apartment walked over the explosives inside it, which led to an explosion inside the apartment, killing the car driver, the police secretary who was with him, and a captain Police and a police major, and the killing of a number of security personnel in the apartment, which is the charge with which the victim was later accused of being a participant in this bombing. However, a number of citizens in the area managed to arrest him and take him to the Haram police station, and a report was issued on 1-21-2016 stating that the victim had been arrested from the Haram on this date, while according to the family’s version, the victim was arrested on 1-19-2016, i.e. before the incident occurred. The family did not make telegraphs of enforced disappearance because it was not aware of the existence of such procedures and was not aware of the arrest of the victim in the first place. The victim was imprisoned pending Case No. 76 of Supreme State Security for the year 2016. He was transferred to Tora Istikbal Prison and was suffering from several forms of poor conditions of detention. As he was subjected to a number of abstractions from the prison administration, and he was suffering from overcrowding, so he was imprisoned in a room containing about 20 detainees, and he visited normally until 12-17-2021. After referring the case to the military court, he was prevented from visiting, and he was only allowed to enter a drum visit and some medicines, but he left. To the new Badr Prisons Complex (Badr Prison 1) and he is still forbidden to visit, but he was completely prevented from visiting, whether bringing personal belongings or medicines, and he started complaining about the continued presence of lighting for 24 hours, and he also complains about the presence of cameras in the detention rooms (audio and image) The family is afraid of the lack of safety measures inside the prison, as when the electricity is cut off, the administration cannot open the prison doors because of its work with electricity, which threatens the lives of the victims in the event of any emergency situations occurring inside the prison. The victim did not suffer from any diseases before entering, but he is currently suffering From semi-permanent bleeding in the anus, from hemorrhoids, and from suspicions of a tumor on the colon. More than once, the administration of Tora Prison asked for reception and the Badr Prison administration for an endoscopy to find out the cause of the bleeding, but the prison administration refused. Case No. 76 was referred to State Security for the year 2016 in which the victim is accused of (joining a terrorist group - manufacturing explosives - monitoring with members of the National Security - participating in detonating a bomb in the Haram apartment - killing a major, a civilian police captain, a police secretary and a civilian first lieutenant with premeditation After the referral, the case became registered under No. 536, Eastern Military Felonies, for the year 2021, and it is known in the media as the events of the pyramid apartment. The victim was referred to the Mufti on these charges on 8-10-2022, and he was sentenced to death on the 26th of the same month.
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- Data status
- Documented