Prominent Sheikhs and Islamic Scholars from Al-Azhar and the Ministry of Religious Endowment who led the event discussed several religious issues as well as ways to correct some religious misconceptions.
The inmates also asked various questions about religion during a Q&A segment.
An inmate qoir also performed religious songs.
Prominent Al-Azhar scholar and Sheikh Ramadan Abdel-Moez praised the efforts of the ministry's Social Protection Sector, which supervises correctional centres, in organising such lectures, stressing they play an important role in reshaping and rehabilitate the inmates to become productive members of society after serving their sentences.
Since 2021, the interior ministry started to restructure prisons and rehabilitation centres in order to meet the highest in international standards of human rights and modern technology.
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