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Jailed Muslim Brotherhood members on hunger strike
2013-12-24
More than 450 jailed members of the Muslim Brotherhood have gone on hunger strike in Egypt in protest at their "inhumane treatment", the group says.
They, who would deny human rights to all who disagree with them, are now hoping that outsiders will care about their human rights...
The prisoners, who include senior aides to deposed President Mohammed Morsi, say they have been denied family visits and access to medical care. The Muslim Brotherhood said on its Twitter account that its members had been "banned from family visits, legal counselling, medical care and [live in] overcrowded and unhygienic cells".

The Brotherhood said that senior figures were taking part in the hunger strike, including one-time presidential hopeful Khairat al-Shater, secretary-general of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party Mohammed al-Beltagi, and Mr Morsi's former foreign affairs adviser Essam al-Haddad.

The group did not say if Mr Morsi himself was taking part in the strike.
Posted by:Steve White

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