(August 14, 2025)

The twelfth anniversary of the Rabaa and Nahda massacres comes this year amid a mass hunger strike in Egypt‘s notorious Badr 3 prison, where detainees say they are subjected to „slow death“ under a „stranglehold policy“.

A leaked letter from Sector 2 in Badr 3, seen by The New Arab‘s Arabic edition Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, states that prisoners had begun „a complete and open-ended hunger strike on July 1… in protest at inhumane detention conditions, including a ban on visits, depriving prisoners of contact with their families, denial of exercise and exposure to sunlight“.