Summary:
State Security investigations continue into 16 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news.
Rotation of 33 citizens in Sharqia, to new cases by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, after the disruption of procedures for their release.
State Security Prosecution decides to release 5 citizens.
Cairo Criminal Court Terrorism Chamber continues non-stop to renew the pretrial detention of hundreds of citizens in State Security cases.
Sentences of life imprisonment and 3 years of aggravated imprisonment in the retrial of defendants in the cases of joining Al-Qaeda and Al-Salam Riot Incident.
News that the security forces in Badr-prison-I had deported dozens of detainees to the high-security Menia and New Valley prisons.
Details
Prosecution Investigations
Supreme State Security Prosecution:
Supreme State Security Prosecution interrogated (during the newsletter’s coverage period) 16 citizens, and put them in pretrial detention for joining a terrorist group and financing and supplying a terrorist group.
Public Prosecution:
Wednesday, 12 June
Belbies Prosecution Office in Sharqia investigated 3citizens after arresting then from their homes, and accused them of joining a terrorist group and spreading false new. They are Hossam Salah El-Din, Ahmed Magdi Azouz, and Maher Mohamed Mohamad Abdullah.
Rotation Pending New Cases:
Tuesday, 11 June
Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated 10 citizens after disrupting the procedures for their release, and placed them in pretrial detention on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news. They are Sami Khamis, Ahmed Mansour Al-Shoubaki, Asim Mahmoud Rabie, Abdullah Eid, Omar Khaled Rushdi Muhammad, Muhammad Magdy Abdel-Wahab Muhammad, Muhammad Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Ghani Al-Assal, Ammar Jamal Al-Hadi Abdel-Aziz, Abdel-Fattah Muhammad Abdel-Fattah Rifai, and Tawhid Hisham Qabil.
Wednesday, 12 June
Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated 23 citizens after disrupting the procedures for their release, and placed them in pretrial detention on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news.
Detention Renewal:
Monday, 10 June
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, in Badr Prison heard detention renewal sessions for dozens of citizens held in pre-trial detention pending cases. Cases No. are 316 of 2017, 238 of 2021 including journalist Tewfik Ghanem, 1222 of 2021, 1391 of 2022, 1480 of 2022, 2135 of 2022, 203 of 2023, 260 of 2023, 333 of 2023, 352 of 2023, 440 of 2023 1978 of 2023, 2194 of 2023, 2469 of 2023, 2526 of 2023, 166 of 2024, 282 of 2024, Supreme State Security.
Zagazig Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber renewed the detention of 14 citizens for 45 days pending investigations on charges of joining a terrorist group. They are Mahmoud Abdallah, Ahmed Samir, Mohamed Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Ibrahim Mohamed Ali Derbala, Raafat Aziz Ali, Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud Attia Sharif, Ahmed Moheb El Din Atta Abdel Fattah, Ahmed Shawky Mohamed Abdel Hamid, Mr. Ali Youssef Bayoumi, Sameh Mohamed Abdel Raouf Abdel Hamid, Ahmed Ismail Ahmed Khalil, Moamen Muhammad Abdel Maboud Ibrahim, Mahmoud Muhammad Hamed Mahmoud Hassan, and Abdel Hamid Saeed Mustafa Salama.
Acquittal:
Monday, 10 June
Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to acquit 5 citizens. They are Muhammad Eid Abdul Rahman Muhammad in Case No. 1691 of 2022, Abdul Hamid Masoud Abdel Hamid Farag and Muhammad Muhammed Salem Ahmed Al-Sheikh in Case No. 2070 of 2022, as well as Hassan Salama Hassan Afifi Hashem and Karim Abdul Rahman Suleiman Muhammad Ahmed Hassan in Case No. 2094 of 2022.
Trials:
Monday, 10 June
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber –III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 35 defendants in the case known in the media as Foreign Currency Trafficking Cell case to the session on 24 August 2024.
Tuesday, 11 June
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 14 defendants, in the case known in the media as Omrania ISIS to the session on 28 July 2024.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 9 defendants, in the case known in the media as Marg 3rd terrorist cell to the session on 25 August 2024.
Tuesday, 12 June
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 1 defendant, in the case known in the media as Media Production Incidents case to the session on 13 July 2024.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 73 defendants, in the case known in the media as The Specific Committees of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 5th Settlement Case to the session on 7 September 2024.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 1 defendant, in the case known in the media as Zaitoun Cell to the session on 13 July 2024.
Judicial Rulings:
Monday, 10 June
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison, ruled to punish 1 accused in his retrial of the case known in the media as the case of joining Al-Qaeda with life imprisonment.
Tuesday, 11 June
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison ruled to punish 1 accused with 3 years aggravated imprisonment in the case known in the media as the El-Salam Riot Incident Case.
Prison news:
Monday, 10 June
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights announced the death of Mekki Mustafa Mekki, 22, because of the disastrous detention conditions inside Assiut Police Department-I amid mysterious circumstances.
Wednesday, 12 June
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights published that the Badr 1 prison administration had deported a number of political detainees to the high-security Menia and New Valley prisons as punishment for their hunger strike.