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Coronavirus: Egypt's Prisons Could Spare Disaster with Conditional Releases

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Expand An Egyptian police officer at the entrance of the Tora prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo. © Khaled Desouki / AFP In a country like Egypt where basic rights are severely stifled, there are many rights-related ramifications during a public health crisis. One of the most urgent is the impact on vulnerable groups, such as those in closed, densely crowded prisons. Egyptian prisons are notorious for being overcrowded, dirty and unhygienic. Last November, UN experts said that Egypt’s abusive detention conditions “may be placing the health and lives of thousands [of] prisoners at severe…

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