Al-Masry Al-Youm has obtained a copy of the punishments inflicted on Ayman Nour by Tora Farms Prison administration. Mr. Nour, founder of Al-Ghad [Tomorrow] Party, is serving a prison sentence on charges of forging the party's authorizations. These sanctions could prevent him from getting a conditional release, which is granted to those who have spent three quarters of their jail sentence. Nour is indeed seeking such release. The sanctions consist in procès-verbaux and notifications on his hunger strike and his attempt to leak papers out of the prison and cause turmoil. Tora Prison administration had filed several procès-verbaux against him in 2006. The first was due to his hunger strike; the second and the third for his attempt to leak papers out of the prison to his wife Gameela Ismail and for his not allowing the prison vice-superintendent to have a look at the papers. A notification was also filed for Nour's refusal to have his corrective lenses checked, unless they were first controlled through a computer, in spite of the doctor's presence. Another notification was filed because he had contravened the prison's instructions and regulations when he had faced an Investigation Department officer, threatened to give up to his visits and used impolite words. The prison administration also submitted another notification on February 22, 2007 because Nour had refused to let the doctor visit him. Another notification was filed in the same year because he had announced he had gone on a hunger strike under the pretext that he had been denied an exceptional visit on the occasion of the July Revolution anniversary, as the notification put it. Another notification was drafted against him in 2008 accusing him of causing individual turmoil (he was kept 72 hours in isolation on December 1, 2008) and being in a place where he could not stay (48 hours of isolation). Finally, another notification was filed against him again for causing individual turmoil (48 hours of isolation). According to the documents, the prison sent a letter to the research and planning director asking to postpone putting Nour and the other detainees in isolation until the isolation cell was restored.
