The prison was used to incarcerate Islamists and other political prisoners under the regime of
Hosni Mubarak and after the
Egyptian Revolution of 2011, several prominent
Muslim Brotherhood activists were imprisoned there. On 30 January 2011, thousands of prisoners were helped to escape from the prison. A June 2013 court concluded that
Hamas and
Hezbollah worked with the Muslim Brotherhood to orchestrate the jailbreak, though some prisoners have suggested that those responsible for freeing them were in fact police officers acting under Interior Ministry orders. The
court of cassation in November 2016 overturned the death sentence on Morsi and five other Muslim Brotherhood members and then ordered a retrial for the similar charges. In May 2022, British-Egyptian political prisoner
Alaa Abd El Fattah was transferred to Wadi Al-Natroun Prison, where he has access to reading material, television, and written correspondence ==References==