A letter leaked from inside Mansoura prison, in north Egypt, revealed that Magdi Abdel-Rahman, a student at the faculty of Arabic, fractured his skull as a result of being pushed from the third floor of the National Security building in Mansroura.
In the leaked letter, the student said he was subject to systematic torture inside the national security building in the city, which involved being pushed from the third floor, after which he was not given treatment or aid.
Security forces arrested Abdul Rahman from university in Mansoura on September 16 along with a number of other young anti-coup activists.
Meanwhile a number of detainees in Ahnasia police station in Beni Suef, south Egypt, continued their hunger strike for a sixth day, protesting at continued detention, despite being aquitted of all charges.
The families of the detainees told The New Arab that the detainees will continue their strike until they are released, and appealed to human rights organisations and civil society to intervene to lift the injustice.
Rights groups accuse Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi of running an ultra-authoritarian and repressive regime since he deposed his democratically elected Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Egyptian courts have sentenced hundreds of people to prison terms since the military takeover for participating in peaceful protests or spreading false information.
"Egyptian authorities are using national security threats to crush dissent among Egypt's youth," Human Rights Watch deputy Middle East and North Africa director, Nadim Houry, said in May.
Egyptian student-detainee 'pushed' from third floor of police building
Egyptian student-detainee 'pushed' from third floor of police building
MENA
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An Egyptian student in custody in Mansoura was pushed from the third floor of a secret police building.
There have been numerous reports of mistreatment in Egyptian prisons [Anadolu]