Saving released prisons ‘after losing hope’: Efforts to reintegrate into society
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- 20 Jan 2023
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Egypt has been exerting huge efforts recently in the rehabilitation and integration process of released prisoners in accordance with President Abdel Fattah al Sisi directions.
These efforts in particularly to ease the released prisoners’ life and reduce the financial and social pressures they face as a result of being former prisoner stigma.
In April 2022, President Abdel Fattah al Sisi ordered the reactivation of the Presidential Pardon Committee, in parallel with his call to launch a national dialogue on various political, economic and societal issues in the country.
Supporting 200 released prisoners
As a result, the pace of the release of hundreds of pre-trial detainees in relation to a number of political cases accelerated under presidential amnesty decisions, a step that was praised inside Egypt from the political community and internationally.
Egypt’s Coordination's Committee of Party's Youth Leaders and Politicians [CPYP] was one of the entities that participated in the expired efforts towards those pardoned prisoners
Since last September, efforts led by CPYP have begun by creating a committee called the ‘Integration and Rehabilitation’ committee which included several politicians and parliament members to communicate with those recently-released-prisoners to provide all aspects of support and help.
CPYP announced that it aims to help integrating more than 200 released prisoners during the coming three months, and to work with then to achieve their basic needs in different aspects of their lives. Read More…
