More than 20,000 prisoners started the hunger strike in more than 114 detention centers and prisons," Haytham Abo Khalil, the director of the Center for Human Rights Victims, SIA reports quoting the Anadolu Agency.
Around 20,000 prisoners on Friday started a week-long hunger strike inside their prison cells in protest against alleged mistreatment, an Egyptian rights activist said.
"More than 20,000 prisoners started the hunger strike in more than 114 detention centers and prisons," Haytham Abo Khalil, the director of the Center for Human Rights Victims, told Anadolu Agency.
He added that the strike is aimed at protesting what he described as the "mistreatment" inside the nation's prisons.
Abo Khalil said by staging the strike, the prisoners want to draw attention to their suffering inside Egyptian prisons.
A recent report by the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), a local NGO, documented over 21,000 alleged cases of individuals who had been subject to prosecution since the July 3 ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi by the military.
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