CAIRO, March 25, 2018 - The head of Parliament's Human Rights Committee, Allaa Abed, said that he held a meeting yesterday with senior officials at the British police to follow up the case of student Mariam Abdel Sallam, who was subjected to a severe assault by ten British girls lead to her death after admission in a hospital in Nottingham. Abed vowed not to give up the struggle to catch the offenders and bring them to justice. The meeting was part of the activities of the Egyptian parliamentary delegation currently visiting London to follow up on the investigations conducted by the British authorities into Mariam's case. MP Abed said that all satellite channels in Britain sympathised with the case of Mariam and her family. They called for holding the perpetrators and the negligents accountable. The Egyptian embassy in London will task a special forensic pathologist to estimate the medical negligence Mariam was subjected to following the assault. The Egyptian parliamentary delegation will deliver a comprehensive report on Mariam's case to the Speaker of the House of Deputies Dr Ali Abdel Aal following their return from London," added Abed. In late February, Mariam, an 18-year-old engineering student based in Nottingham, UK, was brutally beaten by 10 British women. The incident stirred condemnation of both the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and the British embassy in Cairo. The young student fell into coma before dying of her injuries on March 14, prompting wide-scale outrage in Egypt.
