Summary:
1. The arrest of the students’ leader and former prisoner of conscience “Moaz Al-Sharqawi” and his disappearance until today.
2. Renewing the detention of hundreds of citizens pending investigations by the Supreme State Security Prosecution for allegedly joining a terrorist group.
3. The release of four citizens after the completion of their release procedures.
4. The death of an accused person inside his prison cell in the medical center in Badr Prison.
5. Investigating 23 citizens at the Supreme State Security Prosecution and accusing them of terrorism and spreading false news.
6. Life imprisonment and acquittal of defendants in the terrorist Al Zaytoun cell case.
7. The visit of Mrs. Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin, “Ambassador for Human Rights, Democracy and Law Enforcement at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs” and her accompanying delegation to the human rights sector at the Ministry of the Interior.
Details
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Arrest and Detention:
Friday, May 12, 2023
Security forces arrested the former student leader/ Moaz Al-Sharqawi and took him to an unknown destination and did not present him to any of the investigation authorities.
Monday, May 15th
Security forces at the Belbeis police station arrested the citizen / Muhammad Abdulaziz Mustafa and took him to an unknown destination and did not present him to any of the investigation authorities.
2. Investigations by the Supreme State Security Prosecution:
Supreme State Security Prosecution investigated, during the period covered by the bulletin, from May 12 to May 18, 2023, with 23 citizens, accusing them of joining a terrorist group and committing a financing crime, and imprisoned those pending investigations.
3. Detention renewal:
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Second terrorism chamber in the Cairo Criminal Court, held in Badr Prison, considered a session to renew the detention of dozens of detainees held in pretrial detention in cases No. 867 of 2005, 1430 of 2018, 810 of 2018, 58 of 2020, 534 of 2020, 558 of 2020, 680 of 2020. 730 of 2020, 786 of 2020, 656 of 2021, 1413 of 2021, 1987 of 2021, 2739 of 2021, 93 of 2022, 1493 of 2022, 1633 of 2022, 1645 of 2022, 1691 2022 Supreme State Security.
Monday, May 15th
The same chamber in Badr Prison considered the renewal of the detention of dozens of pretrial detainees in cases No. 316 of 2017, 640 of 2018, 1934 of 2021, 1983 of 2021, 2215 of 2021, 2467 of 2021, 2976 of 2021, 200 of 2022, 305 of 20 22, 670 of 2022, 1633 of 2022, 2135 of 2022, 2185 of 2022, 2216 of 2022, 2412 of 2022, 2572 of 2022 Supreme State Security.
Tuesday, May 16th
1. The same chamber in Badr Prison considered the detention renewal session for dozens of pretrial detainees in cases No. 630 of 2017, 311 of 2019, 1781 of 2019, 563 of 2020, 566 of 2020, 569 of 2020, 575 of 2020, 865 of 2020, 880 For the year 2020, 955 for the year 2020, and among the defendants is the photojournalist Hamdi Al-Zaim, 960 for the year 2020, 1018 for the year 2020, 1058 for the year 2020, 1116 for the year 2020, 1196 for the year 2020, 65 for the year 2021, and among the defendants is the activist Nermeen Hussein, 984 for the year 2021, 2121 for a year 2021, 2174 of 2021, 2380 of 2021, 2581 of 2021, 330 of 2022 Among the defendants is human rights lawyer Youssef Mansour, 583 of 2022, 1576 of 2022, 1655 of 2022, 1940 of 2022, 2365 of 2022 Supreme State Security.
2. Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of content creators Ahmed Tariq, known as “Chocolate” and Basma Hegazy, known as “Warda”, for 15 days in Case No. 184 of 2023 Supreme State Security.
Wed 17 May
The Second Chamber of Terrorism, in the Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Reform and Rehabilitation Center of Badr City, considered a session to renew the detention of dozens of detainees held in pretrial detention in cases No. 828 of 2017, 1430 of 2018, 311 of 2019, 750 of 2019, 467 of 2020, 585 of 2020, 1055 For the year 2020, 628 for the year 2021, 1987 for the year 2021, 2741 for the year 2021, 1007 for the year 2022, 1540 for the year 2022, 2070 for the year 2022 Supreme State Security.
4. Release:
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
The security forces at the Hihya police station released four citizens after completing the procedures for their release issued by the Zagazig Criminal Court on charges of joining a terrorist group.
5. Trials:
Saturday, May 13, 2023
1. The Second Chamber of Terrorism in Cairo Criminal Court postponed the trial of 10 defendants in the case known in the media as the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in dispersal case, to the session of June 10, 2023.
2. The Terrorism Chamber in the Zagazig Misdemeanor Court adjourned the trial of two citizens in Case No. 645 of 2023, and one citizen on charges of spreading false news and promoting the purposes of a terrorist group in Case No. 4585 of 2023, and one citizen on charges of spreading false news and promoting the purposes of a terrorist group in the case No. 6306 of 2023, and the trial of two citizens on charges of spreading false news and promoting the purposes of a terrorist group in Case No. 743 of 2023, the Zagazig Center misdemeanour, and all of them were to utter the verdict in the session of May 27, 2023.
3. The same chamber, the “Terrorism Chamber in the Zagazig Misdemeanor Court,” reserved the trial of a citizen in Case No. 7445 of 2023, two citizens in Case No. 8050 of 2023, the trial of one citizen in Case No. 749 of 2023, and one citizen in Case No. 793 of 2023. , and one citizen in Case No. 794 of 2023, all of them in the misdemeanor of the second section of Zagazig, on charges of spreading false news and promoting the purposes of a terrorist group, to utter the verdict in the session of May 27, 2023.
Sunday 14 May
The Second Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court postponed the trial of 22 defendants in the case known in the media as the Brotherhood Administrative Structure Case to the July 8, 2023 session.
Wed 17 May
The Second Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court postponed the resumption of the proceedings of one defendant in the case known in the media as the “Council of Ministers Headquarter’s Events Case” to the session of June 11, 2023.
Thursday, May 18th
The Second Chamber of Terrorism in Cairo Criminal Court postponed the trial of 7 defendants in the case known in the media as the Imbaba Terrorist Cell Case to June 14, 2023.
6. Judicial rulings:
Saturday, May 13, 2023
The Fifth Chamber, a misdemeanor, ruled in the Court of Cassation held in the High Court of Justice to reject the appeal filed by the child known as “Moka Higazi” and uphold the sentence of two years’ imprisonment for publishing anti-moral videos on the “Tik Tok” platform.
Thursday, May 18th
The Second Chamber of Terrorism in Cairo Criminal Court ruled that three defendants be sentenced to life imprisonment and acquitted another defendant of the charges leveled against them in the case known in the media as the terrorist Al Zaytoun Cell case.
7. Legislations and decisions:
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
The Egyptian Gazette published in its issue No. 109, followed by the ruling issued by the Cairo Criminal Court in Case No. 828 of 2017, listing the Muslim Brotherhood and the two companies, Obito Software and Grand Import, on the list of terrorist entities and some of the defendants on the list of terrorists for a period of five years.
Thursday, May 18th
The Ministry of the Interior published, on its official page on the social networking site Facebook, a statement about the visit of Mrs. Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin, “Ambassador for Human Rights, Democracy and Law Enforcement at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs” and her accompanying delegation to the Ministry’s Human Rights Sector. The Assistant Minister of Interior for the Human Rights Sector reviewed during the meeting the ministry’s efforts in the field of upgrading the human rights system, and implementing the axes of the national strategy for human rights within the security system.
8. Follow up on prisons’ news
Sunday, May 14, 2023
Citizen / Sameh Muhammad Ahmed Mansour, who was detained in custody pending case No. 2515 of 2022, Supreme State Security, died inside the medical center of the Badr City Reform and Rehabilitation Center after his health condition deteriorated.
LEGAL COMMENT
– The security forces trampled the provisions of the constitution and the law with their feet. At dawn on May 12, 2023, they arrested the former student leader Moaz al-Sharqawi from his house in the Mokattam neighborhood and took him to an unknown destination, which he has not disclosed until now, and did not present him to any of the investigation authorities, amidst silence from the Public Prosecution represented by the Public Prosecutor, despite the submission of his family and lawyers to a number of official communications, complaints and telegrams, and the failure to open an investigation or summon his lawyers and his family in the crime of enforced disappearance to which he is subjected
– Amidst news about the death of detainees inside reform and rehabilitation centers as a result of many of them suffering from chronic diseases that are not commensurate with their detention. The latest of this news was the death of the citizen/ Sameh Muhammad Ahmed Mansour, who is detained remand pending case No. 2515 of 2022, Supreme State Security inside the medical center at the Reform and Rehabilitation Center in Badr City, after his health condition deteriorated.
– The visit of Mrs. Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin, “Ambassador for Human Rights, Democracy and Law Enforcement at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs” to the Human Rights Sector of the Ministry of the Interior, and the parties discussed with Mr. / Assistant Minister of Interior for the Human Rights Sector about the efforts of the Ministry of the Interior to advance the field of human rights in places detention and Reform and rehabilitation centers in light of the implementation of the dialogues of the National Human Rights Strategy, which raises astonishment and wonder of such meetings that are held inside the offices away from the practices that are practiced on the ground inside the reform and rehabilitation centers.
– In March 1953, the Minister of Justice issued a decision to establish a dedicated prosecution called the “Supreme State Security Prosecution” in the Office of the Attorney General, and it consisted of a chief prosecutor and a number of members. The decision to establish this prosecution came in view of the importance of military felonies and crimes related to state security, whether committed from within or from abroad, we find that this decision has completely emptied its content. We find that the Supreme State Security Prosecution is conducting an investigation and is followed by a number of decisions to renew the detention of citizens who are far from harming internal security. For example, the Supreme State Security Prosecution issued decisions to renew the detention of a number of Al-Ahly club fans after they were arrested from inside Cairo International Stadium after they attended to support their team in a football tournament, as well as renewing the imprisonment of two comic content creators on social media platforms as they published a comic scene about a citizen visiting her imprisoned fiancé does not have any political connotations, so we find ourselves facing a question that must be answered concerning turning supporting football into a state security crime.