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Westerners’ Smuggled Letters Offer Glimpse of Egyptian Prisons

CAIRO — The prisoners were stripped and beaten, and their heads were shaved. They slept packed “like sardines” on concrete floors of cells infested with cockroaches. One said that an open wound on his arm was left oozing, that a cellmate suffered a heart attack without getting medical attention, and that another prisoner was 11 years old. [read the full story here]

International Herald Tribune, Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Tags: Prison Conditions & Corruption, Federal
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