Hunger strike in Egypt’s Badr 3 prison marks Rabaa anniversary

Hunger strike in Egypt’s Badr 3 prison marks Rabaa anniversary

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, …