Castle Prison
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| Location | Cairo |
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| Status | Part of Salah al-den al-ayobi's castle |
The Citadel Prison is a prison located in the Citadel of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi in Old Cairo. It has been turned into a tourist attraction. It dates back to the era of the Mamluk state, and from the royal era through the revolutionary era[1]
History[edit]
The castle prison dates back historically to the era of the Mamluk state, and since the royal era passing through the revolutionary era, since Khedive Ismail moved to Abdeen Palace, and made it the seat of government in 1874, he issued his decision at that time to establish the castle prison located between the rubble of the Muhammad Ali Mosque to be a prison for foreigners, considering the castle prison With its few cells and the intensity of its security, it is the most appropriate place; to perform the purpose.
After the death of Khedive Ismail, Khedive Tawfiq issued a decision to expand the prison's capacity, and after the July Revolution, Gamal Abdel Nasser issued a republican decree to expand the Citadel prison again after the military police received its keys until Muhammad Hosni Mubarak decided, after assuming responsibility, to convert it into a museum affiliated with the Ministry of Culture.>
The Salah al-Din Citadel prison in Cairo is considered one of the most famous Egyptian prisons devoted to political cases and torture, before and after the July 1952 revolution. The prison contains 42 cells divided into two sectors, one eastern and the other western, in addition to eight torture rooms, the most famous of which is the oven room in the eastern side of it. The reason for naming it by this name is due to the fact that it was equipped in the early sixties with a gas system that makes its walls hot by igniting special pipes. At that time, detainees “5 individuals” were entered and the pipes were lit. To force them to confess, or to give descriptions and names of their colleagues.
On the western side of the prison, the suspension room is located, and it is the same room in which Muhammad Anwar Sadat was tortured after his dismissal from the Egyptian army in the royal era after he was accused of killing Amin Othman, the well-known case before the July 1952 revolution. In 1932, similar to a room similar to the famous French Bastille prison, called the confession stripping room, in which the prisoner is suspended from his feet by its ceiling and rotates quickly for minutes, which disturbs his body’s systems, and it is the same room in which Abdel Nasser is said to have given orders not to expose the late writer Mustafa Amin to it after his imprisonment In the well-known case of espionage after the July Revolution, and in the same room - as it is said - Sheikh Kishk, the imam of Ain Al-Hayat Mosque, who was considered by President Mohamed Anwar Sadat to be one of the fiercest opponents of his policy after 1973, was tortured. [2]
Description of the prison[edit]
The detainee consists of a corridor about 50 meters long, and on each side there are 21 cells, each cell has two beds, an upper iron whistle window 2.5 meters high, an iron door that closes from the outside with a hole of 10 cm in diameter, a kitchen and a spacious toilet, and at that time he was in the detention center between 80:100 detainees, and the number may increase or decrease daily.
The most famous detainees[edit]
Ebn Taimia[edit]
Ibn Taymiyyah was imprisoned seven times, three of them in Egypt, the first in the castle, and for a short period, two weeks, from Shawwal 3, 707 AH to Shawwal 18, 707 AH. Some of them acquitted him and some of them condemned him, and the second was in Egypt as well, in the “tarsim” hall, for a period of two months or more, from the end of the month of Shawwal 707 AH, to the beginning of the year 708 AH, and the third was from the day of Rabi’ al-Awwal 1 709 AH to 8 Shawwal 709 AH, for a period Seven months, during which he wrote the book Al-Siyasa al-Sharia, and they intended to exile him to Cyprus, and he threatened to kill him.
Mohammed Anwar Sadat[edit]
President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat was also entered into the castle prison. Ruqaya al-Sadat says : I was six years old when my father was arrested in Armidan detention center in the castle prison in the case of the murder of Amin Othman. At that time, one of my relatives told me that your father was imprisoned. I was terrified for all the prisoners, so the officer, Salah Zulfiqar, reassured me at the time, and told me that my father was not tortured like the rest of the prisoners.
Also See:[edit]
References:[edit]
- ↑ "The castle prison "grill" political detainees from the Mamluks to Sadat". اليوم السابع (in العربية). 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2022-12-28.
- ↑ "It was built by Salah al-Din and turned into a torture cell during Nasser's reign. The full story of the Citadel Prison". ساسة بوست. 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
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