Summary:

1. The appearance of student Mahmoud Hussein after disappearing for 5 days, and enabling him to take legal measures to appeal the ruling in absentia issued against him.
2. The Supreme State Security Prosecution investigating 24 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news.
3. The released of seven citizens in Sharqia after detention outside the framework of the law while awaiting the illegal “national security” signal
4. The continuation of holding criminal trials before exceptional court circuits and inside prisons, away from the courts affiliated with the Ministry of Justice.
5. The acquittal of eight citizens from Sharqia on charges of spreading false news and data.
6. A statement from the Ministry of Interior denies the validity of the figures circulating regarding the number of deaths from the dispersal of the Rabia and Nahda sit-ins.
7. Renewing the detention of dozens of citizens pending cases of the Supreme State Security Prosecution.

Details

1. Appearance after enforced disappearance

Tuesday, September 5

1. The student Mahmoud Hussein, known in the media as “the T-shirt detainee,” appeared at the East Cairo Public Prosecution Office, after en forced disappearance for 5 days. During prosecution, Mahmoud signed a request to restart the procedures regarding the ruling in absentia issued on February 26 against him by the Emergency State Security Criminal Court to life imprisonment in Case No. 37883 of 2017, Al-Marg.

2. Prosecution Investigations:

• Supreme State Security Prosecution:

1. The Supreme State Security Prosecution interrogated (during the newsletter’s coverage period) 24 citizens, and detained them in pretrial detention on charges of joining a terrorist group and financing and supplying a terrorist group.

• Public Prosecution:

Monday, 4 September

1. The Kafr Shukr Prosecution investigated activist Ahmed Hamdi Al-Sayed Suleiman, known as “Ahmed Jeeka”, on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements in Report No. 3117 of 2023, Kafr Shukr Administrative Office, and detained him in pretrial detention pending investigations.

Saturday, 9 September

1. 10th of Ramadan Prosecution Office in investigated citizen Mohamed Hilal after arresting from his home at dawn and accusing him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements.

3. Recycling Pending New Cases:

Wednesday, 6 September

1. Supreme State Security Prosecution investigated Citizen Muhammad Mohammad Abd Al-Moneim al-Yamani – following his arrest after obtaining a release decision from Hahia Misdemeanor Court of Appeals on July 29, 2023, and then accused him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news.

4. Detention renewal:

Monday 4 September

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Circuit-I Terrorism, in Badr Prison heard a detention renewal session for dozens of citizens held in pre-trial detention pending cases. Cases numbers are 689 of 2017, 623 of 2018, 1358 of 2019, 335 of 2020, 647 of 2020, 1020 of 2020, 383 of 2021, 883 of 2021, 966 of 2021, 1935 of 2021 1983 of 2021, 2285 of 2021, 96 of 2022, 400 of 2022, 573 of 2022, 670 of 2022, 1576 of 2022, 1644 of 2022, 1691 of 2022, 1893 of 2022, 1940 of 2022, 1958 of 2022, 2 032 of 2022, 2185 of 2022, 2365 of 2022, 88 of 2023, 154 of 2023?, 294 of 2023, 508 of 2023, and case no.585 of 2023, Supreme State Security.

Saturday 9 September

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Circuit-II Terrorism, in Badr Prison heard a detention renewal session for dozens of citizens held in pre-trial detention pending cases. Case Numbers are: 316 of 2017, 1555 of 2018, 1006 of 2020, 915 of 2021, 1869 of 2021, 2056 of 2021, 2207 of 2021, 2467 of 2021, 2976 of 2021, 2993 Of 2021, 4 of 2022, 85 of 2022, 583 of 2022, 670 of 2022, 907 of 2022, 1096 of 2022, 1473 of 2022, 1634 of 2022, 1650 of 2022, 1960 of 2022, 2135 of 2022, 2412 of 2022, 191 of 2023, 352 of 2023, 510 of 2023, 540 of 2023, 626 of 2023 Supreme State Security.
2. Banha Total Prosecution renewed the imprisonment of the activist Ahmed Hamdi Al-Said Suleiman, known as “Ahmed Jeeka”, for 15 days on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements in Report No. 3117 of 2023, Kafr Shukr Administrative Office.

Sunday 10 September

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Circuit-II Terrorism in Badr Prison heard the renewal session of dozens of citizens detained in pretrial detention pending cases. Cases numbers are 376 of 2012, 630 of 2017, 563 of 2020, 566 of 2020, 575 of 2020, 880 of 2020, case no. 955 of 2020 which includes photojournalist Hamdi Al-Zaim, 960 of 2020, 1018 of 2020, 1058 of 2020, 1116 of 2020, 1196 of 2020, case no. 65 of 2021 which includes activist Nermeen Hussein, 984 of 2021, 2121 of 2021, 2174 of 2021, 2581 of 2021, 330 of 2022, 1576 of 2022, 1655 of 2022, 1940 of 2022 which includes human rights lawyer Ahmed Nazeer Al-Helou, 88 of 2023, Supreme State Security.
2. The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of journalist Muhammad Saad Khattab for 15 days pending the investigations Case No. 2063 of 2023 Supreme State Security

5. Release:

Wednesday 6 September

1. Zagazig Criminal Court in Sharqia decided to release Citizen Muhammad Abdullah Kamel Nafea, after completing the procedures for his release issued by Zagazig Criminal Court and after the National Security signal arrived.

Thursday 7 September

1. The security forces at the Zagazig Police Station in Sharqia released four citizens; Al-Kahlawi Ahmed Attia Mohamed, Ayman Ahmed Attia Mohamed, Hamed Hussein Hammam Salah, Morsi Gamal Mohamed Gamal, after completing the release procedures issued by the Zagazig Criminal Court and following the arrival of the National Security signal.

Friday 8 September

1. The security forces at the Zagazig Police Station in Sharqia released four citizens Ahmad Rashad and Mohamed Gaber, after detention for 45 day outside the framework of the law, awaiting the National Security signal, in implementation of the release decision issued by the Zagazig Criminal Court.

6. Trials:

Tuesday 5 September

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Circuit-I Terrorism held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of five defendants in the case known in the media as the Marg Terrorist Cell case to the October 18, 2023 session.
2. Hahia Misdemeanor Court, Terrorism Circuit, postponed the trial of 8 citizens (Mohamed Al-Saied Khater, Hosni Abdel Moneim Ghamra, Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Mustafa Al-Saifi, Saeed Ahmed Mohamed Gabr, Mohamed Al-Sayed Mohamed Salim Nafea, Al-Said Abdel Aziz Attia, Mohamed Gomaa Abdullah, Atef Mustafa Attia) for 26 September session.

Saturday 9 September

1. The Economic Misdemeanor Court has reserved the trial of publisher Hisham Kassem on charges of insulting, defaming, assaulting a public employee, and misusing communications media for the September 16, 2023 session.

7. Judicial Rulings:

Monday, 4 September

1. Zagazig Misdemeanor Court of Appeal, Terrorism Circuit, ruled to cancel the prison sentence issued against (Yasser Ibrahim Al-Sayed Ali, Al-Kahlawi Ahmed Attia Muhammad, Ayman Ahmed Attia Muhammad, Nader Ahmed Muhammad Hassan, Khaled Farouk Mahmoud Eliwa, Hamed Hussein Hammam Salah, Ahmed Fathi Atwa Ahmed Mustafa, and Abdel Rahman Fathi) and again acquitted them on charges of spreading fake news and statements.

8. Statements:

Friday 8 September

1. The Egyptian Ministry of Interior denied, through its official Facebook page, what was circulated on a number of pages affiliated with fugitive members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, regarding a letter attributed to a Ministry of Interior entity. The assumed letter included the numbers of dead, wounded, and detainees during the events of dispersing the sit-ins in Rabia and Nahda squares.

9. Prison news:

Saturday 9 September

1. The death of citizen Ahmed Moselhi Al-Naggar, who was arrested from Faqous in Sharqia, inside his prison cell in the high-security Gamassa Prison, without explaining the cause of death.

Legal Comment

Student Mahmoud Hussein (known to media as “the T-shirt detainee) appeared in East Cairo Total Public Prosecution Office following a 6 days enforced disappearance and illegal detention in one of the National Security offices to enable him to sign the report of the re-proceedings on the life sentence issued against him in absentia in Case No. 37883 of 2017 Al-Marg.

The student confirmed to his lawyer his stay for several days in one of the National Security offices since his arrest on August 30, 2023, before transferring him to Khanka prison, and that he remained blindfolded for the first three days of his detention. All this happened while the Public Prosecution did not investigate the legal violations against him, in terms of taking him to an unknown destination and his enforced disappearance, in violation of the provisions of the Egyptian Constitution and the Code of Criminal Procedure.

The severe expansion of the application of the provisions of the Terrorism Law, including its provisions that violate the Constitution, by the State Security Prosecution continues. Where 23 citizens were brought before the prosecution on terrorist charges under investigations by National Security officers and after investigation sessions that usually included only one question about the circumstances of the social and religious upbringing of those arrested, to always end with the issuance of a pretrial detention decision without any real investigations that included the elements of the accusations against them.

In serious violation of the law, the phenomenon of recycling arrested citizens continues where citizens from Sharqia either those who obtained acquittal rulings from the courts or who received release decisions from the Public Prosecution re-imprisoned them again under false records.

Cairo Criminal Court, Circuit-II Terrorism held in Badr Prison renewed the pretrial detention of human rights activist Nermeen Hussein and the photojournalist Hamdi Al-Zaeem despite exceeding the legal pretrial detention maximum. The Public Prosecution must quickly issue a release without guarantee decision, like many of those released by the Supreme State Security Prosecution.

Holding the trials of dozens of citizens imprisoned in cases of a political nature, continued before exceptional circuits inside detention facilities of the Ministry of Interior, far from the courts of the Ministry of Justice, which made them legally defective and lacking fair and just trial standards, making the rulings issued by them unjust. .