Amany Hasan was arrested on 8/16/2013 by forces from the police station in Hadayek al-Qobba while she was returning home after the security forces attacked the anti-coup demonstrations in Ramses Square. She was accompanied by her brother, Amir Hassan Abdo, and others, when the security forces stopped a car they were traveling in and then searched the car. In it, they found a picture of Dr. Mohamed Morsi, and they took those in the car to Hadayek El Kobba Police Station in Cairo, where she was tortured into confessing to fabricated charges, which led to health complications. She was imprisoned under case No. 12018/468 of 2013 Felonies Hadayek al-Kobba. Al-Qanater prison refused to receive her at first due to her deteriorating health condition as a result of the torture. She was released on February 1, 2014. She was sentenced to life in absentia on August 6, 2014, and the verdict was appealed and revoked on July 15, 2015, and she was acquitted on February 6, 2016. Violations she was subjected to: subject to severe torture, she even lost consciousness during one occasion; she awakened to the pain of an officer putting out his cigarette on her arm, resulting in hemiplegia which caused Amani to not be able to control her bowel movements; suffered from health problems in her spinal cord, especially in the 6th and 7th vertebrae, after she was subjected to torture in the department. When she was in pain, her jailers would respond to her distress saying: We will take your lifeless corpse out of here. Also, as a result of torture, Amani was subject to paralysis, where she lost feeling in the lower half of her body and could not move any joint – when she denied the accusations against her, the officer beat her kicked her, and enforced her to take photos with weapons, proving the charge against her. She suffered from medical negligence when the doctors diagnosed her case as weakness, atrophy, and paralysis in the legs, and weakness in the arms, and weakness in the nerve signals in the legs and arms, and intense pain in the lower back and neck. They also added that her condition would completely deteriorate and would not improve if treatment was delayed. One of the doctors said in her condition she had 30 days if it wasn’t treated and if she wasn’t subjected to normal treatment sessions. They recommended that she be placed in the prison hospital to receive healthcare. But despite all her symptoms, the prison administration did not offer her any treatment. After the prosecution was informed of her condition, they moved her to the prison hospital after her suffering reached 4 months. She broke her leg while she was in prison, and it developed into swelling which requires ice to lessen it a little. The ice became a heavy burden on the hospital administration that they couldn’t provide. She was not free from harm in the hospital either. When she is suffering in excruciating pain and she raises her voice she finds “Al Shawisha” interferes and says to her colleagues: “They will sew it when it worms and rots, and then you will know how to rise.” At the insistence of her mother to the prison hospital administration, her daughter received a medical mattress to sleep on, but despite this Amani became injured with bedsores as a result of difficulty moving and turning over. Some compassionate hospital friends help her. In addition to the bad care in the prison hospitals, they lack necessary medical equipment.
Amany Hasan Abdo Saleh
Name: Amany Hasan Abdo Saleh
Gender: Female
Age at time of arrest: 33
Occupation: NA
Governorate of residence: Cairo
Arrest governorate: Cairo
Detention date: 16/8/2013
Cases: No. 468/12018 for 2013, Hadaeq Al-Qubbah felonies
Sentences: Life imprisonment in absentia; and then, Acquitted
