EgyptPrisoners have protested in several jails for 3 weeks.
Egypt postponed the new Criminal Procedure Code until October 2027, dashing hopes of release from remand.
Lawyers say security forces answered with “taghreeb,” punitive transfers to prisons farther from detainees’ families.
The Interior Ministry denies any protests or abuses in prisons, in a 2 October statement.
The state’s National Council for Human Rights plans prison visits, but lawyers want an independent investigation.
How each outlet framed it
- Mada Masr leans critical
- documents 'taghreeb' punitive transfers of protesting detainees to distant prisons and the Interior Ministry's denials, tying the unrest to the postponed Criminal Procedure Code
Sources: Mada Masr