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| January 2024 
Anas al-Beltagy has been imprisoned, in isolation, since 2013, merely because he is the son of an opposition leader. | President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
Al Ittihadiya Palace
Cairo
Arab Republic of Egyptp.spokesman@op.gov.egYour Excellency It is reported here that Anas al-Beltagy has been imprisoned for over 10 years.He is the son of Mohamed al-Beltagy, Muslim Brotherhood leader and former parliamentarian. Courts of law have acquitting Anas of all charges in four separate cases. In a fifth case, a judge decided that Anas should be released.It is further reported that Anas has been kept in isolation. He has been allowed no visitors or any other outside communication since 2017. His family and lawyers have little information about him. They get information only during detention renewal hearings, or through other prisoners. This treatment is contrary to international law.Please immediately order that Anas al-Beltagy be released, and that all charges against him be dropped.Yours respectfully and sincerely | | It’s always good to send a copy to the ambassador in your country. HE Mr Sherif Ahmed Mahmoud Kamel
Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt
26 South Street
London W1K 1DW egtamboff@gmail.com
Egyemb2020@gmail.com HE Motaz Zahra
Arab Republic of Egypt to the United States of America
3521 International Court
Washington, DC 20008 embassy@egyptembassy.net
or dcm@egyptembassy.net For more information about Amnesty’s Urgent Action 029/23:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde12/7575/2024/en/ |
| November2023 This hero died in February 2024, essentially murdered by Vldimir Putin. 
Aleksei Navalny is the leading critic of Putin’s autocratic rule, and a campaigner against corruption. In August 2020, he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok. In a coma, he was taken to Berlin for treatment. He returned to Moscow in January 2021 and was arrested. He was subjected to a series of fictitious and politically-motivated accusations – parole violation, financial fraud, “rehabilitating the Nazi ideology” – and eventually sentenced to 19 years. In a series of prisons, he has been constantly targeted for harsher treatment. He is now in a strict regime penal colony IK-6 in Vladimir Oblast (240 km east of Moscow). He has been repeatedly put in punishment cells: 20 times in “SHIZO” (penalty isolation cell) where he was not allowed visits, letters, exercise, walks outside, or to buy additional food. Prolonged solitary confinement is a violation of international law and Russian law. In Russia the legal limit for time spent in SHIZO is 15 days. But Navalny has been kept for 12 months in the most severe type of penal cell, called EPKT, reserved for “systematic offenders” of prison discipline. Under the terms of his latest sentence, unless it is overturned on appeal, he will be moved to an even harsher “special regime” prison colony. Which one, is not yet known, but he will remain in EPKT after his transfer. Prison transfer in Russia is an extremely abusive procedure, lasting for weeks or months. During it, the prisoner’s fate and whereabouts are unknown. | Arkady Aleksandrovich Gostev
Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service
Zhitnaya Street 14
GSP-1
119991 Moscow
Russian Federationudmail@fsin.gov.ru
Dear Director of theFederal Penitentiary Service,I believe that Aleksei Navalny is unjustly imprisoned and should be released. He has been targeted for his legitimate political beliefs.It is also reported that he is subjected to additional severe punishment under your prison administration.Please immediately ensure that he is released from solitary confinment, and is allowed to receive visitors and letters and to obtain sufficient food.The vindictive treatment of Aleksei Navalny is a stain on the reputation of Russia.Yours respectfully and sincerely, | | Please send a copy to the ambassador in your country. HE Mr Andrei Kelin
Embassy of the Russian Federation (Main Building)
6/7 Kensington Palace Gardens
London, W8 4QP
kanc@rusemb.org.uk HE Anatoly I. Antonov
EMBASSY OF RUSSIA IN THE USA
2650 Wisconsin Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20007
rusembusa@mid.ru For more information about Amnesty’s Urgent Action https://www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actions/aleksei-navalnys-ill-treatment-stepped |
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