Some human rights advocates have spent time in Egyptian prisons.
Return of the Pharaoh describes the ordeal which this Muslim activist went through in the notorious Egyptian prison.
He is currently serving 15 years in an Egyptian prison for supporting terrorism.
The caller, speaking Arabic with an Egyptian accent, said the attack had been carried out to protest torture in Egyptian prisons.
I leafed through the twenty-three-page report, full of details about electric-shock torture inside Egyptian prisons and other abuses.
He spent eight months in an Egyptian prison in 1978 for trying to swim across the Suez Canal on his way to Israel.
"There is no torture of any kind in Egyptian prisons," a Ministry official said, declining to be identified by name.
He has languished a year and three months in an Egyptian prison, unjustly accused of trading in slaves.
He challenged the Egyptian President to throw open Egyptian prisons to American journalists.
The Council knows that conditions in Egyptian prisons can be harsh.
