Daughter of Muslim Brotherhood leader transferred to prison hospital during hunger strike
Daughter of Muslim Brotherhood leader transferred to prison hospital during hunger strike
Aisha al-Shater, the daughter of the Muslim Brotherhood leader, has been transferred to hospital while on hunger strike to protest prison conditions.
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Aisha al-Shater, daughter of the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Khairat al-Shater, was transferred to prison hospital after her health deteriorated as a result of a hunger strike.
Shater, detained in al-Qanater prison, north of Cairo, went on a full-scale hunger strike, starting on August 18, to protest human rights abuses in custody.
No official statement has been issued by Egyptian authorities.
Aisha al-Shater has been held in solitary confinement since entering al-Qanater prison, in a small room without lighting, ventilation or toilet.
Aisha al-Shater, was arrested along with her husband, lawyer Mohammed Abu Horayra, last August.
Hoda Abdelmoneim, a 60-year-old lawyer and former spokesperson for the Egypt's Women Revolutionary Coalition - a group allegedly close to the Muslim Brotherhood - was also among those detained.
The Muslim Brotherhood - which won Egypt's first democratic elections in 2012, was overthrown by the military a year later.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has outlawed the group and branded it a "terrorist" organisation, with thousands linked to the Muslim Brotherhood detained by the regime.
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