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Justice Observatory in Egypt from February 5 to February 10, 2024

February 12, 2024

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 43 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. The Supreme State Security Prosecution and the District Prosecutions in Zagazig investigated 60 citizens on terrorism charges. One-year imprisonment and bail for Ahmed Tantawi in the case known in the media as the presidential powers of attorney case. Cairo […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from January 29 to February 4, 2024

February 5, 2024

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 28 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. Rotating 3 citizens in Sharqia, to new cases by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, after the disruption of procedures for their release. Renewal of detention of hundreds of citizens in new cases by the Supreme State Security on terrorism […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from January 22 to January 28, 2024

January 29, 2024

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 40 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. Arrest and enforced disappearance of two citizens from Sharqia. The release of dozens of citizens for exceeding the maximum limit of pretrial detention. Cairo Criminal Court Terrorism Chamber continues non-stop to renew the pretrial detention of dozens of citizens […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from January 15 to January 21, 2024

January 22, 2024

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 30 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. Rotating 8 citizens, to new cases by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, after the disruption of procedures for their release, for exceeding the maximum limit of pretrial detention and re-imprisoning them again. The sentencing of Engineer Yahya Hussein Abdel […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from January 8 to January 14, 2024

January 15, 2024

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 39 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. Conviction sentences up to aggravated imprisonment, for citizens in cases before terrorism chambers. Renewing the detention of hundreds of citizens by the Supreme State Security Prosecution. The continuation of holding criminal trials before exceptional courts, in violation of the […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from January 1 to January 7, 2024

January 9, 2024

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 18 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. The continuation of rotating citizens in Sharqia, to new cases by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, after the disruption of procedures for their release. The continuation of holding criminal trials before exceptional court circuits and inside prisons, away from […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from December 25 to December 31, 2023

January 3, 2024

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 24 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. Renewing the detention of dozens of citizens pending cases of the Supreme State Security Prosecution. Rotating Said Mushagheb to a new case after serving his sentence in connection with the Air Defense Incidents case. Court of Cassation reserves the […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from December 18 to December 24, 2023

December 26, 2023

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 21 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. Renewing the detention of dozens of citizens pending cases of the Supreme State Security Prosecution. Security forces in Zagazig, Sharqia, arrest a citizen from his home and forcibly disappear him. Zagazig Misdemeanor Court of Appeal, Terrorism Chamber, rules to […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from December 11 to December 17, 2023

December 18, 2023

Notice: The lack of news in this issue is the result of the preoccupation of the executive and judicial authorities inside Egypt with securing and supervising the voting process in the presidential elections that took place inside and outside the country and ended on 12 December. Summary: State Security investigations continue into 18 citizens on […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from December 4 to December 10, 2023

December 12, 2023

Summary: The prosecution postpones the investigation into Lina Atalla, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr website, in a report from the Supreme Council for Media Regulation. State Security investigations continue into 32 citizens, including Mohammed Salah Aggag, lawyer and former Suez representative of Egyptian Lawyers Syndicate and member of the Freedoms Committee of the Egyptian Lawyers Syndicate. […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from November 27 to December 3, 2023

December 4, 2023

Summary: State Security investigations continue into 28 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news. Extending the date of the sentencing session of the trial known in the media as the Manassa Incidents Case. Cairo Criminal Court Terrorism Chamber renewed the detention of dozens of citizens in pretrial detention, on charges of terrorism and […]

Justice Observatory in Egypt from November 26 to November 26, 2023

November 27, 2023

Summary: Supreme State Security Prosecution investigates 35 citizens, on joining a terrorist group and spreading false news charges. Continuation of unfair trials before terrorism chambers issuing decisions to renew the pretrial detention of dozens of citizens without evidence. Acquittal rulings for 40 citizens on charges of spreading false news in Sharqia. Release of 5 citizens […]