Four hundred sixty-five refugees from different nationalities are detained in various police stations at Sinai. Within the framework of the EFRR’s follow up on the cases of detained refugees in Sinai police stations, a committee was formed by the foundation. The committee is made of 4 lawyers who have visited north Sinai governor.
The committee had been informed of the presence of more than 465 asylum seeker in the following police stations in North Sinai:
1. Arish first police station which has 44 female asylum seekers and 4 minors, and in addition to a baby that was born inside the detention center and whose mother was deported to her country.
2. Arish third district police station in Arish
3. Arish fourth district police station in Arish
4. Romana police station
5. Be’r El ‘Abd police station
6. El Sheikh Zweyed police station
7. Rafah police station
8. El Hassana police station
9. Nakhel police station hosting 143 asylum seeker who are detained inside the station.
The asylum seekers detained are from different nationalities. However but the committee was informed that most of them are from Eritrea among which some were sentenced for one year for one year but the punishment has been Suspended. They were accused of attempting to escape to Israel. The committee was also informed that these asylum seekers are waiting for deportation decision from the Egyptian Authority. Moreover, the Egyptian authority started to contact the Embassy of those asylum seekers in order to get Airline Tickets to deport them to their countries of origin. Due to the slow responses from the embassies part, their (refugees) detention at these police stations is critical and of a huge concern. The situation of the detainees is severely deteriorating due to the spread of diseases between them especially skin diseases.
Nevertheless, the committee was also informed that these detainees has been assisted and treated humanely by the police stations within the constraints of the available resources. Other in kind assistance has also been provided to the detainees by other institutions.

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