CAIRO: Inside a room attached to a very simple house in the city of Deshna in Upper Egypt’s Qena, a father chained his grown-up son for more than three years over suffering from mental disease.
Salama Hares Marei, 30, suffers from schizophrenia and has been kept in chains in a dark, bare room with a bucket for waste, Youm7 reported Monday.
“Let me out,” is Marei’s refrain, thinking that he has been chained for 1.5, not three years, as he has lost the sense of time.
“I keep him in chains for fear of the people in the area after he tried to attack more than one person, and for fear of causing people to shoot me if my son assaults them,” the father said.
The father called for the government to treat Marei on the state’s expenses in a solitary room in a mental hospital.
According to medical report from the Deshna hospital, Marei suffers from schizophrenia, hallucinations with symptoms of social introversion, and unawareness of personal hygiene.
Additional reporting Moatz al-Sherbini