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Cairo – Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader and former MP Hamdy Hassan died on Thursday in his cell in the notorious maximum-security Al-Aqrab prison, his family said Friday on social media. The cause of Hamdy’s death remains unclear. However, according to a post by the El-Shehab human rights organisation released on its official Facebook page, he was allegedly subjected to “deliberate medical negligence.” The group described Hassan as “a victim of systematic killings.” Hassan’s son, who goes by the name Baraa Hamdy, wrote on Twitter that his father’s family was allowed access to Muslim funeral r…