No visits for a year and a half.. A distress message from the family of the detainee ‘Somaya Maher’ regarding the violations against her

Justice for Human Rights foundation-JHR has received a distress message from the family of the detainee inside Al Qanater Women’s Prison ‘Somaya Maher Hazima’. They stated the message as follows;

“For more than a year and a half after the arrest of our daughter ‘Somaya Maher’ from her home in Damanhour city, we are still looking for a morning to see her in her current detention place at Al Qanater Women’s Prison.

Since the dawn of 17th October, 2017, we do not know anything about Somaya although she’s detained at a public prison affiliated to Ministry of the Interior, but the Egyptian authorities still believe that
Letting her family visit her is a dangerous thing.

We do not ask for much, only the right guaranteed by humanity before it is guaranteed by constitutions or laws, it’s a human right for the prisoner to be visited, to be sure that he or she is okay, and to care for and abide by his humanity. Thus, allowing Somaya’s family to visit her will not harm the course of the investigations into the case, it’ll only give her mother, after more than a year and a half of being deprived of her right to see her daughter, a sight for her sore eyes.

Adding to the calls we made that didn’t stop for a single day since the arrest of Somaya from her father’s house while preparing for her wedding, we, today, call on the authorities which are the Egyptian government, Ministry of the interior, and the public prosecutor to allow us, Somaya’s family, to visit her normally in Al Qanater Women’s Prison.
In conclusion, the pen of humanity will not stop addressing your papers, where we can only pray for our daughter to be released from her prison, and pray to God to reassure her detained father and her mother who are in pain and willing to pay everything to return their daughter to their arms again.”

JHR condemns the violations against the detainee ‘Somaya Maher Hazima’, calls on the Egyptian authorities to allow the visit for her family and allow her to communicate with her family and lawyer, and also affirms that the Egyptian authorities are fully responsible for her safety.