{"id":24887,"date":"2026-10-28T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/?p=24887"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:55:42","slug":"shafei-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/shafei-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Detainee Khaled El-Shafei Dies Six Months After Being Held at Ibrahimiya Police Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political detainee Khaled Mohamed Abdullah El-Shafei died on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at Al-Ahrar Hospital after his health deteriorated, about six months after he was detained at the Ibrahimiya police station in Sharqia Governorate, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfjustice.org\/ar\/%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d9%84%d8%ac%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%b1%d8%b5%d8%af-%d9%88%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%aa%d8%ac%d8%b2-%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%ae%d9%84-%d9%85\/\">documented<\/a> by the Committee for Justice on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The committee said El-Shafei had been scheduled to undergo a leg amputation on Sunday, October 18, at Hehia Central Hospital, before he was transferred to Al-Ahrar Hospital. It added that he had previously been arrested in 2022. The committee did not state the cause of death, nor the case in which he was being held.<\/p>\n<p>The Shehab Center for Human Rights said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elshehab-ngo.net\/post\/4443\">statement<\/a> issued on Thursday, October 22, that El-Shafei&#8217;s condition had deteriorated sharply and that he was transferred to Al-Ahrar Hospital late, and attributed his death to what it described as &#8220;deliberate medical neglect inside detention facilities.&#8221; The center called for an independent investigation into the death, accountability for those responsible, and access to detention facilities for rights organizations and independent judicial bodies.<\/p>\n<p>With this case, the number of deaths in detention documented by the Committee for Justice since the start of 2026 rises to 56, after 60 cases it documented in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"z3b-credit\"><small>Photo: Ameer Attia via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Zagazig,_El-Hariry,_Qesm_Awal_AZ_Zagazig,_Ash_Sharqia_Governorate,_Egypt_-_panoramio_(2).jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\">CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political detainee Khaled El-Shafei died at Al-Ahrar Hospital after his health declined; a leg amputation had been scheduled, the Committee for Justice said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20481],"tags":[18472,10696,21156,21155,21157,2165],"kateb":[710],"class_list":["post-24887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-brief","tag-committee-for-justice","tag-death-in-custody","tag-ibrahimiya-police-station","tag-khaled-el-shafei","tag-medical-neglect-in-egyptian-prisons","tag-sharqia","kateb-zawia3-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/shafei-death-en.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24905,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24887\/revisions\/24905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24887"},{"taxonomy":"kateb","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kateb?post=24887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}