Summary:
1. The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court closed the curtain on the Minya terrorist cell case with heavy sentences ranging from death penalty to rigorous imprisonment.
2. The Supreme State Security Prosecution investigated former student leader and human rights defender Moaz Al-Sharqawi after an enforced disappearance that lasted 23 days, accusing him of joining and financing a terrorist group.
3. Postponing the consideration of the extension of the detention order for the poet Galal Al-Beheiri due to his poor health, and renewing the detention of hundreds of citizens pending state security cases.
4. The official spokesman for the armed forces announces that an Egyptian soldier has crossed the border with the Israeli occupation state while chasing a group of smugglers and exchanging fire with them, which led to the death of three Israeli occupation soldiers and the injury of (2) others, in addition to the death of the Egyptian soldier.
5. The Supreme State Security Prosecution issued a decision to review the detention renewal sessions for pre-trial detainees through the “video conference” technology, starting from Saturday, June 10, 2023.
Details:
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Arrest and detention:
Thursday, June 8, 2023
The security forces from the Kafr Saqr police station in the Sharkia governorate arrested the citizen / Hani Haroun from his home at dawn and took him to an unknown destination. He was not presented to any of the investigation authorities.
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Rotating in New Cases
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
1. Al-Hussainiya Partial Prosecution interrogated the citizen / Mohamed Abdel Moneim – accusing him of joining a terrorist group – after he was involved in a new case after the procedures for his release issued by the Criminal Court were suspended for more than 40 days.
2. The Partial Prosecution Office of Faqous interrogated the citizen/ Ezzat Mohamed Attia – accusing him of joining a terrorist group – after he was transferred to a new case after the suspension of the procedures for his release issued by the Criminal Court more than 50 days ago.
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
The Zagazig Prosecution Office investigated three citizens and accused them of joining a terrorist group – after they were involved in a new case after the suspension of the procedures for their release issued by the Criminal Court in the last April 15 session.
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Prosecution Investigations:
Investigations of the Supreme State Security Prosecution:
The Supreme State Security Prosecution, during the coverage period of the bulletin from June 2 to June 8, 2023, investigated a number of citizens, including former student leader and human rights defender Moaz Al-Sharqawi, on charges of joining a terrorist group and financing and supplying a terrorist group.
Public Prosecution Investigations:
Sunday, June 4, 2023
The Kafr Saqr Prosecution office investigated two citizens after the security forces at Kafr Saqr police station arrested them from their homes, accused them of joining a terrorist group, and held them in pretrial detention.
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
The Zagazig Prosecution Office interrogated the student/ Tasneem Saeed Ismail Al-Rammah – after she appeared from an enforced disappearance that lasted for a week – and accused her of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements, and imprisoned her for remand.
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Detention Renewal:
Saturday, June 3, 2023
The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court considered a session to renew the detention of dozens of citizens detained in pretrial detention pending cases No. 630 of 2017, 977 of 2017, 1118 of 2019, 1400 of 2019, 1470 of 2019, 460 of 2020, 558 of 2020, 585 of the year 2020, 786 of 2020, 1055 of 2020, 628 of 2021, 656 of 2021, 909 of 2021, 1934 of 2021, 1987 of 2021, 2739 of 2021, 2976 of 2021, 330 of 2022, 670 of 2022, 1020 of 2022, Supreme State Security.
Sunday, June 4th
The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court considered the detention renewal session for dozens of citizens detained in pretrial detention pending cases No. 977 of 2017, 1823 of 2019, 571 of 2020, 864 of 2020, 968 of 2020, 33 of 2021, 878 of 2021, 936 of the year 2021, 1624 of 2021, 2032 of 2021, 2055 of 2021, 2207 of 2021, 2213 of 2021, 2215 of 2021, 2313 of 2021, 2407 of 2021, 5 of 2022, 93 of 2022, 200 of 2022, 633 of 2022, 1564 of 2022, 1635 of 2022, 1645 of 2022, 1910 of 2022, 2031 of 2022, 2184 of 2022, 2185 of 2022 Supreme State Security.
Monday, June 5th
The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court considered a session to renew the detention of dozens of citizens detained in pretrial detention pending cases No. 759 of 2014, 722 of 2015, 148 of 2017, 316 of 2017, 700 of 2017, 444 of 2018, 1175 of 2018, 1332 of the year 2018, 650 of 2019, 1413 of 2019, 549 of 2020, 867 of 2020, 979 of 2020, 1053 of 2020, 1107 of 2020, 755 of 2021, 911 of 2021, 2000 of 2021, 5 40 of 2022, 635 of 2022, 1095 of 2022, 1391 of 2022, 2094 of 2022, 2515 of 2022 Supreme State Security.
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Trials:
Sunday, June 4, 2023
The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court postponed the retrial of 5 defendants in the case known in the media as the Special Committee Cell case in Helwan, to August 5, 2023.
Monday, August 5, 2023
The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court postponed the retrial of one defendant in the case known in the media as the ISIS Helwan cell case, to the session of August 6, 2023.
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Judiciary Verdicts:
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
The First Chamber of terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court, penalized four defendants to death by hanging, punishing 5 defendants with 15 years’ rigorous imprisonment, and punishing one defendant with 3 years’ imprisonment in the case known in the media as the Minya terrorist cell case.
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Decisions:
Thursday, June 8, 2023
The Supreme State Security Prosecution issued an internal decision to review the renewals of the detention of the defendants held in pretrial detention pending investigation cases, starting from Saturday, June 10, 2023, through video conference technology, and holding sessions in the hall prepared for that in the New Cairo Courts Complex.
8. Statements and declarations:
Saturday, June 3, 2023
The official spokesman of the armed forces published on the official page on the social networking site Facebook that one of the security personnel in charge of securing the international border line was chasing drug smuggling elements.. During the pursuit, the security personnel breached the insurance barrier and exchanged fire, which led to the death of (3) members of the Israeli armed forces personnel and the wounding of (2) others, in addition to the death of the Egyptian security personnel during the exchange of fire.
Monday, June 5, 2023
1. The Public Prosecution Office published a statement on its official page on the social networking site Facebook, stating that the case of the accused / Heba Sayed, owner of the “Umm Ziyad Wahba” channel on social media, and her son and husband, has been transferred to the Criminal Court, with an order to arrest and bring the latter and imprison him – like the other two defendants – to punish them for what was assigned to them for committing the first crime of human trafficking by dealing with natural persons, who are her children, with the aim of increasing viewership and achieving financial profit.
2. The official spokesperson for the Presidency of the Republic published on the official page on the social networking site Facebook that the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, received a phone call from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during which they discussed the shooting incident that took place at the Egyptian border with the Israeli occupation state on Saturday, June 3, 2023, which led to the deaths of border security personnel, and the two parties stressed the importance of full coordination to uncover all the circumstances of the incident, and their intention to continue work and coordination in the context of bilateral relations, and the pursuit of a just and comprehensive peace and maintaining stability in the region.
Legal Comment
– After 23 days of enforced disappearance – during which the former student leader and human rights defender Moaz Al-Sharqawi was subjected to wholesale violations that constitute criminal offenses, including crimes whose punishments do not fall under the statute of limitations – the Supreme State Security Prosecution interrogated him after he appeared before it, accusing him of joining a terrorist group and financing and supplying the group, in Case No. 540 of 2023, Supreme State Security, and his remand detention and placement in the “notorious” Badr 3 Reform and Rehabilitation Center, so that the series of violations against “Al-Sharqawi” continues, which began with his arrest from his home on May 11, 2023 without informing him of the reasons for his arrest or enabling him to inform his lawyer or one of his relatives in accordance with the text of the Egyptian constitution in Article 54 of it, which the Public Prosecution violated despite the fact that the family of Moaz Al-Sharqawi and his lawyers submitted a number of communications to the Counselor and Public Prosecutor from the date of his arrest until a few hours before the date of his presentation to the State Security Prosecution to demand disclosure of his place of detention and the reasons for his arrest.
– The decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution to hold remand detention sessions for remand detainees through the “video conference” technique came as a disappointment towards reforming the legal justice system in Egypt and towards the return of the normal course of trials and remand renewal sessions and the availability of fair and equitable trial standards, the most important of which is the appearance of the accused before the judge. This is the normal standard, which is negated with the holding of sessions through the “video conference” technology, during which the accused remains inside his prison cell and his contact with his natural judge is through a technique controlled by those responsible for the prison he is placed in and the judge present in the court, and they are the only ones who control when the accused is allowed to speak and when not he is allowed, in addition to the absence of another criterion of fair and equitable trial, which is the accused’s contact with his lawyer, which was available for the accused to meet with the lawyer inside the prosecution’s headquarters every 15 days before reaching the stage of detention renewal inside the counseling room, and the accused’s contact with his lawyer was cut off.
– The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court issued its verdict in the case known in the media as the Minya terrorist cell case, in which 10 defendants, including 6 women, are being tried. The verdicts closed on a trial that lasted for nearly 6 months, during which four sessions were held with harsh sentences between death penalty for 4 defendants and aggravated 15 years for 5 defendants, and imprisonment for 3 years for one defendant. It is noted from the number of trial sessions that it came quickly and lacks fairness against the defendants, so how can it be rational or logical that the court has concluded and formed its doctrine through only four sessions to issue harsh rulings such as those issued.
– The decision of the First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court came to postpone the consideration of the order to extend the preventive detention issued against the poet Galal Al-Beheiri because he was unable to attend the session due to the deterioration of his health condition after he entered an open strike on food and drink and taking heart and depression medicines in protest of his continued pre-trial detention, which violates the law. Criminal procedures for exceeding the maximum limit stipulated under the last paragraph of Article 143 to bring to mind his friend, director Shadi Habash, whose pretrial detention exceeded the maximum limit and continued his imprisonment until he died inside his prison in Torah Investigation Prison and raises an important question when the courts and prosecutions implement the provisions of the law and are they waiting for more deaths inside headquarters of detention to activate the provisions of the law regarding pretrial detention.