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Deadly virus spreading in Egypt prisons: rights group
What you need to know:
- HRW based its report on witness accounts, leaked letters from prisons and reports by local rights groups.
- Information about the health situation in Egyptian prisons is strictly controlled by the authorities.
- Guards in at least three prisons had refused to allow inmates to source or wear masks, it added.
Beirut,
At least 14 prisoners have died from likely Covid-19 complications in scantly-monitored outbreaks of the disease at Egyptian detention centres, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
