Source: Jailed Alaa Abdel-Fattah Transferred to Rehabilitation Center

On Wednesday, a security source told Sada El-Balad English (SEE) that the Ministry of Interior responded to the request of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights to transfer the convict Alaa Abdel-Fattah to the Correction and Rehabilitation Center in Wadi El-Natrun.

Last Saturday, Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said, in a statement, it had received a petition signed by 500 Egyptian women demanding Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a detained "prisoner of conscience" and hunger striker, to be admitted to the prison's hospital for medical supervision.

The petitioners also said that Abdel-Fattah, who has been on hunger strike for more than 40 days in the high-security Tora prison, would also enjoy the right to reading material and exercise time in the prison's hospital.

Abdel-Fattah, 40, a well-known blogger and activist who has been in jail since 2019, is now serving a five-year sentence in the case 1228/2021 over joining a terrorist group and spreading false news inside and outside the country, according to a court ruling issued last year.