Summary:

1. Renewing the detention of hundreds of citizens pending Supreme State Security cases
2. Public Prosecution refers 6 new cases to determine a jurisdiction.
3. Acquittal of 3 citizens of charges of joining a terrorist group.
4. Two detainees attempt suicide and end their lives inside their cell at Badr Prison-III.
5. Postponing the first session in the trial of activist Marwa Arafa.

Details

I.                Arrest and Enforced Disappearance:

Tuesday, 8 July

1. Security forces at Kafr Saqr Police Station in Sharqia arrested citizen Ahmed Ali from his home and took him to an unknown location, without presenting him to any investigation authority.

II.             Prosecution Investigations:

• Public Prosecution:

Sunday, 4 July

• 10^th of Ramadan-II Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Amr Ahmed Anwar after arresting him from his home, and then accused him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements placing him in pretrial detention.

Wednesday, 9 July

• Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Nour El-Din Safwat Abdel Fattah after arresting him from his home and putting him in 72 days enforced disappearance, and then accused him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements placing him in pretrial detention.
• 10^th of Ramadan-II Prosecution in Sharqia investigated both Abdel Rahman Hamed El-Sharqawi and Hamdy Mahmoud Mohamed after arresting them from their homes and accusing them of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements then placing them in pretrial detention.

Thursday, 10 July

1. Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated 4 citizens after arresting them from their homes, accusing them of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements and then kept them in pretrial detention. They are Mohamed Gamal Abdel Hamid, Amr Ali Ibrahim, Amr Abdel Rahman Abdel Salam, and Khaled Saeed.
2. 10th of Ramadan-III Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Saeed Abdel Khaleq Mahmoud after arresting him from his home, and then accused him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements placing him in pretrial detention.

III.           Detention Renewal:

Sunday, 6 July

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber -I, held at Badr Prison considered a session to renew the detention of hundreds of citizens pending cases Nos. 20 of 2025, 2135 of 2022, 2152 of 2023, 2174 of 2021, 2464 of 2023, 2490 of 2023, 281 of 2024, 3388 of 2023, 3434 of 2024, 5 of 2025, 665 of 2024, 851 of 2025, 915 of 2021, Supreme State Security.

Monday, 7 July

• The Supreme State Security prosecution renewed the detention of these citizens for 15 days pending investigations, on charges of joining a group established in violation of the law and the constitution:
• Fatima Ibrahim Al-Said Abdel Aal in Case No. 3865 of 2025
• Suhail Mohamed Mohamad Hegazi in Case No. 1604 of 2025
• Hamad Salah Abdullah in Case No. 6062 of 2024
• Eid Abdel Latif Mohamed Ali Hassan in Case No. 4881 of 2025

Saturday, 12 July

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber -II, held at Badr Prison considered a session to renew the detention of hundreds of citizens pending cases Nos. 1126 of 2025, 1127 of 2025, 1183 of 2025, 1752 of 2022, 1977 of 2022, 184 of 2023, 2013 of 2021, 2064 of 2023, 2207 of 2021, 2469 of 2023, 2490 of 2023, 2772 of 2023, 316 of 2017, 3 of 2025, 288 of 2024, 333 of 2023, 409 of 2024, 4474 of 2024, 598 of 2024, 65 of 2021 Activist Nermin Fathi, 6026 of year 2024, 6170 of 2024, 716 of 2023, 7430 of 2024, 848 of 2025, 851 of 2025, 95 of 2025, 20 of 2025, 1691 of 2022, Supreme State Security.

IV.          Trials:

Sunday, 4 July

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of activist Marwa Arafa with 38 other defendants, in Case No. 19857of 2024, Nasr City Felonies, known as the case of Nasr City Cell to the session of 18 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 38 defendants, in Case No. 15044 of 2024, Mataria Felonies, known as the case of the administrative structure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Mataria to the session of 7 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 6 defendant, in Case No. 37 of 2015, Old Cairo Felonies, known as the case of the Old Cairo Cell to the session of 19 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 44 defendants, in Case No. 10948 of 2024, 5^th Settlement Felonies, known as the case of the Financial Committees Cell to the session of 7 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 89 defendants, in Case No. 1290 of 2024, 5^th Settlement Criminal Court, known as the case of the Administrative Structure Cell to the session of 18 October 2025.

Monday, 7 July

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 16 defendants, in Case No. 9640 of 2025, Haram Felonies, known in the medica as the case of the Administrative Structure in Haram to the session of 17 August 2025.

Tuesday, 8 July

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 76 defendants, in Case No. 8759 of 2024, Katamia Felonies, known in the medica as the case of the Administrative Committees Structure in Katamia to the session of 5 October 2025.

Thursday, 10 July

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 2 defendants, in Case No. 6923of 2025, Boulaq Al-Dakrour Felonies, known in the medica as the case of the Boulaq Cell to the session of 4 October 2025.

Saturday, 10 July

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 1 defendant, in Case No. 2976of 2021, known in the medica as the case of Matbakhna Group.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 1 defendant, in Case No. 810 of 2019, known in the medica as the ………….
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 46 defendant, in Case No. 14874 of 2011, Agouza Felonies, known as the case of the Agouza 2^nd
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Appeals Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 5 defendants, in Case No. 10296of 2025, Agouza Felonies, known as the case of the Media Cell.

V.             Judicial Rulings:

Wednesday, 9 July

1. Khanka Criminal Court, Chamber-II, held in Wadi El Natroun Prison acquitted 3 defendants in Case No. 10296 of 2025, Khanka Felonies, registered as Case No. 626 of 2023, on charges of joining a terrorist group.

VI.          Actions of Public Prosecution

Tuesday, 8 July

• State Security Prosecution, referred cases numbers Nos. 1780 of 2019, 1973 of 2023, 1940 of 2022, 1233 of 2023, 1470 of 2023, and 2215 of 2021, to the Cairo Court of Appeal to determine the chambers to consider the charges in these cases.

VII.        Prison News:

Monday, 7 July

• Egyptian Network for Human Rights ENHR published a statement on Facebook stating that Dr. Abdel Rahim Mohamed, a cardiologist consultant, attempted to end his life on Friday, 4 July inside his cell in Badr Prison-III. He attempted to slit his throat in front of surveillance cameras in protest against the poor conditions inside Badr Prison and was transferred to the hospital for treatment.

Wednesday, 9 July

• ENHR published a statement on Facebook stating that accountant Ahmed Sharif Ahmed Leithi El-Shafei had attempted to end his life inside his cell at Badr Prison-III, Sector 2, by cutting his wrist arteries and refusing to receive medical treatment until the attempt was documented in the official records.

Thursday, 10 July

1. Citizen Abdel Moneim Abdel Basset Ismail El-Sayed, who had been detained for nearly four years and remanded in custody for numerous cases, died in Faqous General Hospital in Sharqia after transfer from Faqous Police Station following the deterioration of his health and the denial of medical treatment.

Legal Comment

After five years of pretrial detention and then referral to trial, the court rejected the request from lawyers of activist Marwa Arafa to release her to care for her child, in continuation of the pretrial detention as a punishment for opponents and critics of the regime.

When the law is replaced by an investigation report, investigations into violations are closed, and pretrial detention becomes a punishment without a judicial ruling; this is a summary of the state of “justice” in Egypt.

The best evidence of this is the actions of the Zagazig Total Prosecution Office, when it began investigating citizen Nour El-Din Safwat Abdel Fattah, after his reappearance following 72 days of enforced disappearance.

This citizen, who was not brought before any judicial authority during that period, informed the prosecution of his exposure to the most severe forms of physical and psychological torture inside a security facility, describing moments when he wished to die from the severity of the cruelty and abuse, at the hands of officers and informants inside his unknown detention center.

However, instead of the Public Prosecution fulfilling its supposed role— referring him to the forensic medicine department to document his injuries and verify the veracity of his statements— it completely ignored his statements, relying on the investigation report of the National Security Sector, despite its ambiguity and contradiction of logic and reality, to issue its decision to detain him in pretrial detention.

Thus, this citizen became just another number added to the thousands of detainees pending investigation reports that have become more powerful than the text of the law and the highest authority of the Court of Cassation rulings, and not he is in a dark tunnel from which he does not know when or how to emerge.