His daughter, Mariam Aamer, told local news website Darb that authorities in Cairo’s Tora Prison denied her multiple requests to deliver insulin, eye medication, and prescription glasses to her father, who is a diabetic and has cataracts in both eyes.
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“Egyptian journalist Aamer Abdelmonem is already in failing health, and to detain him during a global pandemic blatantly endangers his life,” said CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, @sherifmnsour
In his recent articles on Al-Jazeera’s website, Abdelmonem criticized the Egyptian government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its crackdown on the Al-Azhar Islamic Institution, a state-affiliated religious institution.
According to @pressfreedom CPJ’s 2020 prison census, at least 27 journalists were imprisoned in #Egypt in retaliation for their work as of December 1.
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