[1] 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.
A June 2013 court concluded that Hamas and Hezbollah worked with the Muslim Brotherhood to orchestrate the jailbreak,[2] though some prisoners have suggested that those responsible for freeing them were in fact police officers acting under Interior Ministry orders.
[1] 34 Brotherhood activists, including the future president Mohamed Morsi and Saad El-Katatni, were among those who escaped from the prison.
[3] 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.
[4] 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 [5]