Summary:

1. Acquittal of lawyer Mahinour El-Masry on L.E. 50,000 bail, after investigation by the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
2. Rotation of poet Galal El-Beheiri to a new case after investigation by the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
3. Renewing the detention of hundreds of citizens pending Supreme State Security cases.
4. The family of activist and prisoner of conscience Marwa Arafa, has announced that she had suffered a pulmonary embolism in her cell at 10^th of Ramadan-IV Prison, and then her transfer to the hospital before returning to prison.

Details

I.                Prosecution Investigations:

• Supreme State Security Prosecution:

During the bulletin’s coverage period; State Security Prosecution investigates dozens of citizens, who reappeared following varying periods of enforced disappearance, under the Anti-Terrorism Law and remanded in custody.

• Public Prosecution:

Tuesday, 19 August

• Belbeis Prosecution in Sharqia investigated both Essam Mahmoud Rayan and Ahmed Fikry, 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.

II.             Rotation

Tuesday, 19 August

• Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered the presence of poet Galal El-Beheiri from prison then his transfer to Case No. 2369 of 2023, State Security, on charges of joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its objectives, committing one of the crimes of financing a terrorist group, and publishing and broadcasting false news and statements.

III.           Detention Renewal:

Sunday, 17 August

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. No. 316 of 2017, 65 of 2021 including activist Nermin Hussein, 915 of 2021, 2013 of 2021, 2207 of 2021, 1691 of 2022, 1752 of 2022, 1977 of 2022, 95 of 2023, 184 of 2023, 716 of 2023, 2469 of 2023, 2772 of 2023, 288 of 2024, 409 of 2024, 598 of 2024, 4474 of 2024, 7430 of 2024, 1124 of 2025, 1126 Of 2025, 1183 of 2025, 1603 of 2025, 1773 of 2025, 2025 of 2025, Supreme State Security.

Monday, 18 August

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. 550 of 2014, 1301 of 2018, 1480 of 2019, 1898 of 2019, 662 of 2020, 2397 of 2021, 41 of 2022, 1516 of 2022, 2216 of 2022, 325 of 2023, 744 of 2023, 2468 of 2023, 2991 of 2023, 3391 of 2023, 3510 of 2023, 715 of 2024, 2558 of 2024, 2806 of 2024, 3435 of 2024, 3529 of 2024, 4091 of 2024, 4334 of 2024, 4399 of 2024, 6671 of 2024, 6788 of 2024, 1 of 2025, 1 of 2025 (copied from 900 of 2017), 4 of 2025, 816 of 2025, 846 of 2025, 1125 of 2025, 1517 of 2025, 1248 of 2025, 1602 of 2025, Supreme State Security.

IV.          Acquittal:

Monday, 18 August

• Supreme State Security Prosecution acquitted human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Masry on a L.E.50,000 bail after investigating her in Case No. 6322 of 2025, Supreme State Security, on charges of spreading false news and statements domestically and abroad.
• Supreme State Security Prosecution acquitted citizen Fatima Ibrahim El-Sayed on bail in Case No. 3865 of 2025, Supreme State Security.

Tuesday, 20 August

• Zagazig Criminal Court in Sharqia decided to acquit 3 citizens on bail of the residence, o. They are Haitham Masoud, Mosaab Fawzi, and Wael Khalil.

V.             Trials:

Sunday, 17 August

• 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 media as the case of the Administrative Structure in Haram, to the session of 22 September 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 6 defendants, in Case No. 8 of 2025, Boulaq Felonies, known in the media as the case of the Boulaq Aboul Ela Cell, to the session of 21 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 292 defendant, in Case No. 1679 of 2024, Settlement Felonies, known in the media as the case of Settlement ISIS Cell, to the session of 2 November 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 39 defendants, in Case No. 580 of 2025, 5^th Settlement Felonies, known in the media as the case of the Currency Cell, to the session of 18 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 7 defendants, in Case No. 267 of 2025, Ain Shams Felonies, known in the media as the case of Ain Shams ISIS Cell, to the session of 18 October 2025.

Monday, 18 August

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 11 defendants, in Case No. 23849 of 2024 Helwan Felonies, known in the media as the case of Helwan Cell, to the session of 21 September 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 6 defendants, in Case No. 4019 of 2025 October Felonies, known in the media as the case of October ISIS Cell, to the session of 3 November 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 40 defendants, in Case No. 15661 of 2024 Nasr City Felonies, known in the media as the case of the Administrative Structure in Nasr City, to the session of 23 September 2025.

Saturday, 23 August

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 9 defendants, in Case No. 13555 of 2024, Helwan Felonies, known in the media as the case of Helwan Cell – under Delta.

VI.          Statements and Information:

• August 20

Ministry of Interior denied on its Facebook page what a page had circulated regarding a police officer carrying a firearm assaulting residents in Aswan.

VII.        Prison News:

Monday, 18 August

• The family of translator Marwa Arafa has announced that she had suffered a pulmonary embolism in her cell at the 10th of Ramadan-IV Prison on 13 August, 2025. The prison administration transferred her to the hospital, returned her to prison, and then asked her mother to bring medication and a both monitors for blood pressure and glucose level.

Legal Comment

Supreme State Security Prosecution has summoned Human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Masry, over Facebook posts, and then decided to acquit her on L.E. 50,000 bail.

This is the third of such summons this month, following those of journalist Lina Atta Allah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr, and activist Ahmed Douma.

This reflects a desire to intimidate and silence opinion-makers, contradicting the claims of the President of openness and respect for freedom of expression.

Translator Marwa Arafa suffered a pulmonary embolism in her cell in tenth of Ramadan-IV Prison. The prison administration subsequently asked her mother to bring her some medical supplies, in a flagrant illustration of the precarious health conditions of prisoners in Egypt.

However, instead of releasing her since she had exceeded the legal maximum period for pretrial detention, she was returned to her prison, or, more accurately, as the opposition in Egypt now call it, to her place of captivity..