{"id":2652,"date":"2014-06-15T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2652"},"modified":"2014-06-15T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T03:20:29","slug":"april-6-movement-says-detained-founder-ahmed-maher-on-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/april-6-movement-says-detained-founder-ahmed-maher-on-hunger-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"April 6 movement says detained founder, Ahmed Maher, on hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The April 6 Youth Movement said Saturday its founder, Ahmed Maher, who is in jail for breaking protest laws, started a hunger strike last Tuesday over &#8220;inhumane&#8221; treatment in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the group accused the National Council for Human Rights of &#8220;ignoring&#8221; requests for council members to visit activists Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel and Ahmed Doma and other activists in various prisons to check on their conditions.<\/p>\n<p>But NCHR member George Ishaq denied receiving any complaints from the group or its detained members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe movement had earlier asked the council to visit its prisoners, and a delegation from the council did pay a visit a month ago, meeting Maher, Douma and Adel,\u201d Ishaq said, adding that the trio made no complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Maher\u2019s brother, Mostafa, said prison authorities denied the three activists visits, adding that officials at Wadi al-Natroun Prison are mistreating five other activists with the \u201cbrutalist kinds of torture.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/\/news\/april-6-movement-says-detained-founder-hunger-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April 6 Youth Movement said Saturday its founder, Ahmed Maher, who is in jail for breaking protest laws, started a hunger strike last Tuesday over &#8220;inhumane&#8221; treatment in prison. In a statement, the group accused the National Council for Human Rights of &#8220;ignoring&#8221; requests for council members to visit activists Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,299],"tags":[258,256,766,765,4697,415,767,257,4694,254,768],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-north-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahmed-maher","tag-april-6-movement","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-national-council-for-human-rights","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wadi-al-natroun-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/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=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}