The elderly woman Samia Shanan.. 12 years of injustice, abuse, and deteriorating health threatening her life
Al-Shehab Human Rights Center calls for her immediate release
Samia Shanan, who is seventy years old, has been imprisoned in Egyptian jails for more than twelve years, after the Cairo Criminal Court issued a death sentence against her in 2015, making her the first woman among the regime's opponents to receive such a sentence before it was commuted to life imprisonment in 2017.
Samia's ordeal began on September 19, 2013, when security forces raided her home searching for her son. When they did not find him, they arrested her and one of her children. According to testimonies from her family and former witnesses, Samia was subjected to severe torture and threats of rape to force her into making "confessions," before being referred to a trial that included 188 defendants in case number 12749 of 2013, known in the media as the Kerdasa case.
Although the court itself denied in the reasoning of its 2017 ruling the fabricated media narrative about "administering boiling water," campaigns of incitement and defamation against her continued in the media, in a blatant violation of her right to a fair trial.
Her family confirms that her health condition is deteriorating severely within a detention environment that lacks the most basic humanitarian standards, amid a lack of medical care and deprivation of regular communication with her family.
Al-Shehab Human Rights Center calls for the immediate release of elderly woman Samia Shanan, for urgent humanitarian and health reasons, after many years of suffering and violations.
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