Aisha Khairat El-Shater

Aisha Khairat El-Shater

Category
  • Relatives of political detainees
Status
  • Detained

The daughter of a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Khairat Al-Shater – sentenced – and the wife of Muhammad Abu Hurairah – detained – and she has children. She was arrested from her home on November 1, 2018, and subjected to enforced disappearance for a period of 21 days, during which she was subjected to electric shocks, beatings and torture at State security headquarters. She is accused in state security case no. 1552 of 2018 of joining a banned group, and receiving funding for a terrorist purpose. She is being held in solitary at Qanater prison for women, has been denied family visits since her arrest and she suffers aplastic anemia and suffer from medical neglect.