Summary:

1. Acquittal of Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Atallah on a EGP 30,000 bail after investigation for a report on Badr-III Prison.
2. State Security Prosecution referred a number of cases to the Cairo Court of Appeals to determine the jurisdiction to hear them.
3. Cairo Airport Security arrested citizen Emad El-Sayed Hassan Ibrahim upon his return from abroad and brought him before the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
4. Zagazig Public Prosecution Office detained citizen Mohamed Salah Zardak, following his appearance after reappearing after approximately 30 days of enforced disappearance and then investigated him on charges of joining a terrorist group.
5. Mohamed Allam, known as “Rivaldo,” started a hunger strike inside Menia Maximum Security Prison after his transfer there from the 10^th of Ramadan Prison and placing in solitary confinement in disciplinary cells.

I.                Arrest and Enforced Disappearance:

Thursday, 7 August

1. Security forces at Cairo International Airport arrested citizen Emad El-Sayed Hassan Ibrahim upon his return from abroad. He was brought before the Supreme State Security Prosecution for investigation and remand in custody.

Friday, 8 May

• Security forces at Dar Al Salam Police Station in Cairo arrested student Khaled Mahmoud from in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court and took him to Dar Al Salam Police Station, and then detained him.

II.             Prosecution Investigations:

• Public Prosecution:

Thursday, 7 August

• Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Mohamed Salah Zardak after 30 days enforced disappearance, and then accused him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements placing him in pretrial detention.

III.           Rotation

Thursday, 7 August

• Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated 6 following the obstruction of their release procedures, on charges of joining a terrorist group, spreading false news and statements, and was placed in pretrial detention. They are Ali Abdel Maqsoud Ali, Ahmed Farhat Ibrahim, Mohamed Abdullah Abd Allah Al-Sadik, Mohamed Abdel Raouf Mohamed Ahmed, Abdel Rahman Abdel Maaboud Abdullah, and Azab Tolba Mohamed Mansour.

IV.          Detention Renewal:

Tuesday, 5 August

• The Supreme State Security prosecution renewed the detention of Ms. Fatima Ibrahim Al-Sayed Abdel Aal for 15 days pending Case No. 3865 of 2025, Supreme State Security, on charges of joining a group established in violation of the law and the constitution.
• The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of Sohail Mohamed Mohammad Hegazi for 15 days pending case No. 1604 of 2025 Supreme State Security, on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements.
• The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of Eid Abdel Latif Mohamed Ali for 15 days pending case No. 4881 of 2025 Supreme State Security, on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements.

V.             Acquittal:

Monday, 4 August

• Supreme State Security Prosecution released Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Atta Allah on EGP 30,000 bail, after investigating her and accusing her of running an unlicensed website and publishing false news with the intent to destabilize the country. Atta Allah was charged in Case No. 6182 of 2025, Supreme State Security. The case stems from a report published on 31 July regarding complaints from prisoners in Badr-III Prison about their exposure to abuse.

VI.          Trials:

Sunday, 3 August

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 5 defendants, in Case No. 8237 of 2025, known as the case of Nozha Terrorist Cell to the session of 5 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 22 defendants, in Case No. 21122 of 2022, Nasr City Felonies, known as the case of The Administrative Structure of the Muslim Brotherhood to the session of 7 October 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 9 defendant, in Case No. 9687 of 2011, Ain Shams Felonies, known as the case of Ain Shams ISIS to the session of 5 October 2025.

Saturday, 9 August

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 73 defendants, in Case No. 11926 of 2022, 5^th Settlement Felonies, known in the medica as the case of Settlement Terrorist Cell.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 9 defendants, in Case No. 13402 of 2024, Settlement Felonies, known in the medica as the case of Currency Cell.

VII.        Actions of Public Prosecution

Wednesday, 6 August

• State Security Prosecution, referred cases numbers Nos. 1391 of 2022, 203 of 2023, 352 of 2023, 1816 of 2023, 1301 of 2023, 333 of 2023, 88 of 2023, 984 of 2021, 647 of 2020, 786 of 2020, to the Cairo Court of Appeal to set a session before the terrorism circuits to consider the matter.

VIII.     Prison News:

Monday, 4 August

• Nagi Ali El-Prince, a citizen in prison for 3 years, in Case No. 1222 of 2021, Supreme State Security, and brother of Hassan El-Prince, former Deputy Governor of Alexandria, died in his cell at Badr-III Prison.

Thursday, 7 August

• Egyptian Network for Human Rights reported receiving distress calls from families of prisoners in Menia Maximum Security Prison, stating that direct instructions had been issued by the prison warden and the head of investigations, to prevent the entry of medications to prisoners, including those for chronic diseases, without providing alternative treatments inside the prison.

Monday, 5 August

• Atef Mahmoud Zaghloul, a citizen in detention in Abu Kabir Police Station in Sharqia, on charges of possessing inflammatory publications, died after health deterioration due to him suffering a heart condition, then transferring him to the general hospital.
• Egyptian Network for Human Rights reported that Mohamed Allam, known as “Rivaldo,” has entered hunger strike inside his cell at Menia Maximum Security Prison, protesting his transfer from the 10^th of Ramadan-VI Prison to the disciplinary unit at Menia Maximum Security Prison.

Legal Comment

State Security Prosecution invested Journalist Lina Atta Allah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr for questioning over a report published about conditions inside Badr-III Prison, and then acquitted her on bail, reflecting a recurring pattern of abuses against journalists who attempt to shed light on sensitive issues, particularly those related to human rights and detention conditions.

Instead of seriously investigating the information and testimonies contained in the report about potential violations inside the prison, or even responding to them in an institutional and transparent manner, the authorities have once again resorted to investigating and intimidating journalists, as if the problem lies in the publication of facts rather than their actual occurrence.

Ironically, this pattern of treatment is not only intended to intimidate journalists, but sends as well a broader message to anyone considering approaching these cases, that revealing the truth could cost them their freedom.

Where the journalist is not someone reporting information to a defendant, and the discussion about the content of what was written is replaced by an investigation of the author.

 

The investigation of citizen Mohamed Salah Zardak, after his reappearance from enforced disappearance for approximately 30 days, without the Public Prosecution taking any action to investigate the crime of enforced disappearance, is a flagrant violation and a crime not subject to statute of limitations, that nullifies all subsequent proceedings based on it.

Furthermore, issuing a pretrial detention order while ignoring the fact of unlawful detention not only constitutes a violation of the victim’s right to liberty and personal security, but rather constitutes as well a formal legitimization of an existing crime.

This practice is similar in its legal structure to the crime of money laundering, as it gives a legal appearance to the proceeds of a crime, which is usually given to unlawful detention.

This behavior not only perpetuates a policy of impunity, but rather undermines the principle of the rule of law and the basic guarantees of criminal justice, as well as perpetuates the phenomenon of impunity.

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