The Egyptian authorities must deal responsibly and work to save the detainee, Rabab Abdel Mohsen Abdel Azzim Mahmoud, who suffers from a liver cancer and a sharp and noticeable deterioration in her health and reaching to the point of the danger to her life.

We have received information today through our sources that she is suffering from bad deterioration in her health. Rabab is 37 years, she has reached to a degree never been before, She does not stop the bloody vomiting or nausea. This happened as a result of medical negligence inside the prison Qanater for women in Cairo, Medicines are given only to stop vomiting without conducting a medical examination to search for the cause of her symptoms and prescribe her the appropriate medication after a medical diagnosis followed by a therapeutic program to cure her sickness.

This is not the first time Rabab has suffered from health deteriorating and the refusal of the prison’s administration to treat her since her arbitrary arrest on 15 October 2016. The prison’s administration approval to treat her was constantly conditioned on a severe deterioration in her condition from one hand and human rights pressure on the other. As a result of only providing her with a medicine to stop the current symptoms not to treat them or the root cause of her pains, the nausea and bloody vomiting has been increasing upwardly and constantly.

Rabab had written from her imprison a touching letter expressing her feeling of despair and lack of attention to her conditions, helplessness and inhuman conditions and facing illness and death inside her prison alone and away from her four children who are deprived of her for nearly three years. She started her letter by writing “In the name of Allah the Merciful, Is there anyone who cares about me?! This is a message to him. She then elaborated on explaining her circumstances.

Before her imprisonment, Rabab, who her name is listed under Case No. 785 of 2016, had a very small lump on the liver. It developed after being tortured and neglected inside the National Security headquarters and then deteriorated in Al-Qanater prison. She has been admitted for periods up to a 18 months in Al-Qanater prison hospital due to her frequent coma. As a result of neglecting her the bloody vomiting stage, her health is deteriored from bad to worse.

Based on the above, we are addressing the spirit of responsibility that the Egyptian authorities are supposed to take the necessary medical procedures in order to treat Rabab and protect her life from the dangers. Those dangers if continued will cause her death or in other meaning killing. Please Save her for the sake of her four children, who are orphans and no longer have except their mother.

We Record

wednesday, corresponding to August 28, 2019

Cairo, Egypt.