The Arab Penal Reform Organization (APRO), and the Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners (HRAAP) presented three complaints to Field Marshal Tantawi, requesting to check political prisoners' conditions in Toura prison. APRO received the three complaints after Mohamed Zarea the lawyer and the chairman of the organization, visited Toura prison. The prisoners said the conditions in the prison have improved after the Revolution. APRO also demanded to check prisoners' legal statuses, and they should be released or retried after the Revolution, especially if they were tried unfairly under the pressure of the emergency law. The prisoners said they are divided into three categories. The first category represents 24 prisoners who have served more than half their sentence in prison. The second represents 12 prisoners who were sentenced to death after they were tried before an exceptional court. The third category represents 42 prisoners who have served less than half of their sentence, and were also tried under the emergency law. APRO and HRAAP asked the supreme commander in-chief and the military council to release those who apply within the release terms, and to retry those who are sentenced to death, especially those prisoners were tried before courts which didn't meet the standards for a fair trial.
