Crackdown on Egypt’s front-line health care workers continues
Egyptian doctors are outraged by authorities’ handling of medical personnel after a number of doctors were arrested and others were criticized.
CAIRO — In what was described by rights advocates as part of a crackdown against Egypt’s medical staff, a doctor in northern Egypt has been remanded in custody for 15 days as of June 27 by the state security prosecution pending further investigation into the charges of misusing social media, spreading false news and being involved in a terrorist organization.
Mohamed Moataz El-Fawal, a university lecturer of radiology and board member of the Sharqiya province syndicate branch, was arrested one day after he voiced his views online about Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly’s recent remarks on Egypt’s medical personnel.
“Fawal has been accused with the same set of accusations used to terrorize anybody with a free voice,” a medical syndicate board member told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity.
“The syndicate has taken all the necessary measures to offer him proper defense. But there is nothing else we can do,” he said.
