EGYPT/IRELAND – Dublin teenager Ibrahim Halawa, who is on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison today, has said fellow inmates are being tortured and “crucified”. The 19-year-old has told a caseworker from human rights organization Reprieve that some prisoners were being tied up naked in a crucifix position in the prison’s halls. Others had been electrocuted using pools of water to increase the pain.

Ibrahim’s sister Somaia told the Herald yesterday that his latest letter to his family in Dublin alleges that “experimental torture” is being carried out at the prison. He said he was regularly beaten with rubber bars, and was singled out by one senior guard for particular abuse. “Some prisoners were tied naked in a crucifix position in the prison’s halls, while others had been electrocuted, using pools of water to increase the pain,” he said. He alleges that he had been stripped naked, sexually assaulted, whipped with metal chains and walked upon, and he said he has been held around the clock in a windowless cell with no natural light or fresh air. (INDEPENDENT IRELAND)…[+]