Dr. Ayman Nour, founder of Ghad (Tomorrow) Party, asked the Tora Prison warden to send telegrams to a number of officials topped by President Mubarak to stop solitary confinement. “Nour decided to send these telegrams in light of Article 63 of the Prison Service Act,” Nour's wife Gamila Ismail said, asserting that the prison administration refused her husband's request.
Nour will be detained in solitary after he was accused of attacking a prison officer on December 5. “These accusations are fabricated,” Ismail said, adding that the decision, which was postponed more than once, is scheduled to be implemented on December 25.
Nour asked the prison warden to send telegrams to President Mubarak, the People's Assembly (Parliament) Speaker, the Minister of the Interior, the Director of State Security Investigation, the Public Prosecutor, the President of the National Council for Human Rights, the head of the Bar Association and the chairmen of the Press Syndicate. In the telegrams, Nour said: "Please, intervene immediately to stop the implementation of the decision that would end my life." Ismail quoted her husband as saying he had concerns that the decision aims to end his life with a sugar coma in a 180-cm cell, especially as the prison's medical authorities refused to sign the decision due to Nour's bad health conditions, as she put it.
This decision would kill Nour and would make him lose the opportunity for amnesty after having spent 75% of his term in July 21. A prisoner should be of good behavior throughout the period of his imprisonment. He should not receive new sentences or penalties in prison. The prison administration has postponed the implementation of the sentence to December 25 although it was taken last December 5 so that conditions would be ripe for committing its "crime" amid a media blackout and greater attention to the New Year holidays as was the case in December 23, 2006 when the government killed Sudanese citizens in Mohandeseen district, as she put it.
