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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
On October 28, Egypt’s Interior Ministryreleased a slick, heavily produced video showcasing a new state-of-the-art prison mega-complex. The Wadi El Natrun Correctional and Rehabilitation Center complex is supposed to replace 12 prisons that currently hold 25 percent of the country’s total estimated prison population of 114,000 – tens of thousands of them political prisoners, held in endless pre-trial detention or following grossly unfair trials. The video’s caricature of an idyllic rehabilitative life in Egypt’s prisons covers up a deeply sinister reality of Egypt’s abusive prison system, and …