By Moayad Bilal On March 9, 2020, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior banned prison visits under the pretext of curbing the spread of COVID-19. Three months into the ban, 69 year-old Amira Tawfiq could no longer stand being unable to communicate with her son in jail. So she travelled from Alexandria where she lives, to Tora prison (known as Scorpion) in Cairo. She waited for hours at the prison gate ...