Egypt.. Interior Ministry responds to post about prison inmates' hunger strike

- The Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed the truth behind a circulated post on social media, claiming that inmates in a prison in the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt were on a hunger strike. The Ministry of Interior stated in a post on its account on the "X" platform, formerly Twitter, early Saturday morning: "An security source categorically denied the accuracy of what was circulated by several pages affiliated with the terrorist Brotherhood abroad on social media, regarding the claim that a number of inmates in one of the rehabilitation and correction centers in Minya were on a hunger strike due to being subjected to violations."

The ministry added: "The source confirmed that these allegations are baseless." The source stated that what it described as "the systematic campaign and repeated falsehoods of the terrorist group come as part of their desperate attempts to obtain advantages for their members inside rehabilitation and correction centers outside legal frameworks, and legal measures are being taken against those promoting these allegations."

Recently, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior denied what it described as "allegations" promoted by pages affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood abroad, which included claims of a hunger strike by a number of inmates in a prison in the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt, in protest against being subjected to violations.