The family of Muslim Brotherhood figure Salah Sultan has called on authorities to release their son, who was transferred to the intensive care unit of Tora Prison hospital for the second time within 48 hours due to his bad health condition for being on a hunger strike for the past 233 days.
Security source said that the son is well-treated in prison.
Mohamed Sultan, who holds Egypt and US citizenships, is on one of the longest hunger strikes in prison.
In a statement on Sunday, the family laid responsibility of Sultan's health on Egyptian authorities, especially the ministers of health, interior affairs, his deputies, the National Council for Human Rights and the US embassy in Cairo.
Sultan, the son, was arrested on 25 August 2013, after security services couldn’t arrest his father Salah Sultan, who was accused of being a leading figure in the Rabaa al-Adaweya task force sit-in. The son started his strike on 26 January 2014. He then abstained from drinking water within his strike in protest against the report by the fact-finding committee, which visited him and said later in a press conference that he was in good health.
Edited translation from Anadolu Agency
