Top Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader dies in prison
A top Muslim Brotherhood leader has died in Egypt while serving his term in prison, Egypt’s Interior Ministry says.
Farid Ismail, a former lawmaker under the ousted president, Mohammad Morsi, and an official in the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood's political wing, died of liver failure at the age of 58 in a Cairo hospital on Wednesday, medical and police officials said.
Isamil, who had been sentenced to seven years in prison last year, was moved from a jail in the town of Zagazig to Aqrab Prison Hospital in Tora, in southern Cairo, a few days ago. He was in a coma for the past couple of days.
According to Egypt’s Interior Ministry, Ismail had received treatment for his liver cirrhosis and hepatitis C. However, his son, Mohamed Farid, had previously said that his father had been deprived of proper treatment and care.
Authorities are “clearly determined to ignore his needs, prison administration rejects all requests and pleas to transfer him to a properly equipped hospital so he can be placed in Intensive Care Unit where he can receive continuous care – as necessary,” he told the official website of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday.
Ismail was elected as a member of parliament in Egypt’s first free parliamentary elections held in 2011, following the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, was toppled in a July 2013 military coup led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the current president and the then head of the armed forces. Morsi was himself given a 20-year prison term in April this year.
Hundreds of Morsi’s supporters have been given death sentences or jail terms after often speedy mass trials.
The United Nations has slammed the trials as unprecedented in recent history. Amnesty International, among other rights groups, has denounced the mass trials and the heavy-handed measures taken by the Egyptian government against protesters and Morsi’s supporters.
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