On Thursday, Egypt's interior ministry said that it has submitted recorded footage from inside the prison cell of activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah to the Public Prosecution in order to disprove the false claim of the imprisoned activist’s hunger strike.
In a statement, the ministry said that the footage also refutes the claim that books have not been allowed into his prison cell, the Ministry of Interior said in a brief statement.
The ministry’s remarks come after Abdel-Fattah's family affirmed that he is still on hunger strike which started more than 60 days ago, according to media reports on Tuesday.
In response to the ministry's statement, Abdel-Fattah’s lawyer, Khaled Ali, requested on Thursday to see the ministry’s footage and for Abdel-Fattah to be referred to an “independent” medical committee to determine whether the activist is on hunger strike.
The Egyptian-British activist Abdel-Fattah was transferred to Wadi Al-Natroun Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre in mid-May as per a request by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) for the newly-established centre’s “advanced medical capabilities.”
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