The Egyptian Revolutionary Council participates in a campaign titled ‘#SlowMurder’ which aims to highlight extrajudicial killings and other atrocities and violations committed by the illegitimate military regime in Egypt against political prisoners. It will take place on an international level, and will include international organisations and figures, as well as outreach to grassroots level.

After the 3rd of July military coup, more than 40,000 political prisoners are packed in prison cells and detention facilities of significantly smaller capacity. This has led to extremely condensed conditions in prisons that, under normal circumstances, are known to be unfit for human accommodation. According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, prisoners have been subjected to torture and rape.

In an environment that increases the risk of developing illnesses and in the spread of contagious diseases – and with temperatures rising to forty degrees during summer in poorly ventilated prison cells – prisoners are deliberately prevented from getting their medication, medical care, access to a doctor and necessary surgical operations. In some cases dissidents are stripped of their personal goods such as their spectacles, footwear, even blankets, among others. Meals are deliberately served in insufficient quantities and are prepared without salt.

Moreover, dissidents are often prevented from communicating with their lawyers, and from family visits, and systematic torture is documented.

The above-mentioned appalling conditions, led to the death of more than 320 dissidents in prisons after the military coup.

Documented extrajudicial killings have reached 57, including 13 Muslim Brotherhood members killed in an apartment in 6th of October city; Islam Atito, Ain-Shams University student; six killed in a farm in Fayoum; and others from Helwan, Bani-Sweif, Behiera and other cities.