{"id":238580,"date":"2026-07-12T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-prisoner-with-apparent-brain-tumor-denied-care\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:13:55","slug":"egypt-prisoner-with-apparent-brain-tumor-denied-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-prisoner-with-apparent-brain-tumor-denied-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Prisoner With Apparent Brain Tumor Denied Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Beirut \u2014 <em>Death Sentence Following Forced Disappearance, Unfair Trial, Alleged Torture<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/egypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egyptian<\/a> authorities are denying medical care to a death row prisoner with an apparent brain tumor, following a forced disappearance and an unfair trial, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"87\">The Egyptian authorities detained the prisoner, Ahmed al-Waleed al-Shal, in 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/news\/details\/414185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shortly after he graduated from<\/a> medical school at age 24. He was convicted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/spcommreports.ohchr.org\/TMResultsBase\/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=23168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass trial<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/eipr.org\/press\/2017\/06\/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%B6%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%AA-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged involvement<\/a> in a violent attack, and <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut \u2014 Death Sentence Following Forced Disappearance, Unfair Trial, Alleged Torture Egyptian authorities are denying medical care to a death row prisoner with an apparent brain tumor, following a forced disappearance and an unfair trial, Human Rights Watch said today. The Egyptian authorities detained the prisoner, Ahmed al-Waleed al-Shal, in 2014 shortly after he graduated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,16706,16299,5732,7634,4697,415,257,25098,254,16171],"class_list":["post-238580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apparent","tag-brain","tag-care","tag-denied","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-news","tag-prisoner","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}