Deprived of His Daughter’s Wedding and His Grandson’s Face: Dr. Safwat Hegazy’s Absence Behind Bars Turns into Collective Punishment for His Family
🔴 The fleeting impact of bars.. How does the absence of detainees become collective punishment for families?
Al-Shehab Human Rights Center follows, through living and painful testimonies, the depth of the human rights violations faced by detainees’ families—an example of which is the testimony of “Maryam Safwat Hegazy” about the psychological and social suffering resulting from her father’s prolonged and forced disappearance behind bars.
📌 “He didn’t see me in my wedding dress”.. The tragedy of family deprivation:
Deprivation from pivotal moments: the detainee’s daughter condensed her family’s ordeal in her father’s absence from her graduation ceremony, from her wedding day, and even his being denied the chance to meet his grandson or know his name.
Collective punishment and systematic dismantling: this testimony sheds light on a policy of collective punishment that goes beyond the detainee to extend into the fragmentation of the family fabric, and the destruction of interconnected social and family ties.
Psychological wounds that do not heal: the continued detention of fathers for years without any fair legal horizon constitutes a violation of international covenants, leaving extremely harsh psychological effects on the children and on society as a whole.
⚖️ Al-Shehab Center’s demands:
The immediate end to prolonged detention and the activation of the release of detainees held for long years to stop the bleeding of family disintegration.
Guaranteeing the right to regular communication and periodic visits without arbitrary obstacles or restrictions.
Respecting the human dimension and providing mechanisms that allow detainees to share their families’ major social occasions (such as marriage, death, and childbirth).
Commitment to international covenants and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to protect the family unit from collapse.
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