Following complaints of torture in Abū Zaʿbal filed on March 19th, The Egyptian National Council for Human Rights tried to visit the prison to survey the situation, but it was not able to get permission to visit the prison until yesterday. Salāh Salām, a member of the council, speaking of a report that the council issued after the visit, said that the report was the first to detail torture occurring inside the prison. He went on to claim that the occurrences of torture inside the prison were isolated incidents, rather than part of a larger trend. Detailing the condition of a number of detainees in the prison, the report said that the water inside the prison is not clean, there is no ventilation, and that food is scarce.

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