Summary:
- Investigating 38 new citizens inside the headquarters of the Supreme State Security Prosecution in New Cairo, accusing them of terrorism crimes and spreading false news.
- Considering the renewal of the detention of hundreds of citizens on the grounds of higher state security cases.
- The release of 63 citizens by a decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
- The acquittal of Boutros Ghali, former Minister of Finance during the era of former President Hosni Mubarak, in the case of customs corruption.
- The release of 7 citizens from Al-Sharqiya governorate, after completing the procedures for their release.
- Badr Prison witnessed a new death of the lawyer/ Ali Abbas Barakat, who is detained in remand after he was rotated after obtaining an acquittal verdict.
Details:
- Arrest and Detention:
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Security forces in Al-Sharqiya arrested three suspects and took them to an unknown destination. They have not yet been presented to the investigation authorities.
- Prosecution investigations:
Investigations of the Supreme State Security Prosecution:
The Supreme State Security Prosecution, during the bulletin’s coverage period from June 23 to July 6, 2023, investigated 38 citizens on charges of joining a terrorist group and financing and supplying a terrorist group.
- Detention renewal:
Saturday 24 June 2023
The Third 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. 810 of 2019. Among the defendants is the publisher Ismail El Kemary, 1781 of 2019, 865 of 2020, 1222 of 2021, 1934 of 2021, 1983 of 2021. 911 of 2022, 1473 of 2022, 1493 of 2022, 1576 of 2022, 1958 of 2022, 2135 of 2022, 2183 of 2022, 2185 of 2022, 2216 of 2022, 2365 of 2022, 25 72 of 2022, 88 of 2023, 95 of the year 2023, 184 of 2023, 185 of 2023, 186 of 2023, 191 of 2023, 192 of 2023, 203 of 2023 Supreme State Security.
Sunday 25 June 2023
The Third Chamber, Cairo Criminal Court, considered the renewal of the detention of dozens of citizens in pretrial detention pending cases No. 867 of 2005, 1430 of 2018, 311 of 2019, 563 of 2019, 750 of 2019, 58 of 2020, 467 of 2020, 534 of the year 2020, 558 of 2020, 585 of 2020, 730 of 2020, 1055 of 2020, 628 of 2021, 656 of 2021, 1987 of 2021, 2741 of 2021, 305 of 2022, 1007 of 2022, 1 540 of 2022, 1633 of 2022, 1645 of 2022, 2070 of 2022 Supreme State Security.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
The same chambre considered the detention renewal of dozens of citizens detained in pretrial detention pending cases No. 316 of 2017, 970 of 2020, 1006 of 2020, 238 of 2021. Among the defendants are the journalist Tawfiq Ghanem and the lawyer Mr. Khalaf, 482 of 2021, 1222 of 2021, 1391 of the year 2022, 2135 of 2022, 185 of 2023, 192 of 2023 Supreme State Security.
- Release:
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
The Supreme State Security Prosecution released 63 citizens who were held in pretrial detention pending higher state security cases on charges of joining a terrorist group, publishing false news and statements, and committing terrorist financing crimes.
- Acquittals:
Wednesday 28 June 2023
- The security forces at the 10th of Ramadan police station released 5 citizens after completing the procedures for implementing the decisions to release them issued by the Zagazig Criminal Court, in the session of June 24, 2023.
- The security forces at Al-Qanayat Police Station in Al-Sharqiya Governorate released the citizen/ Saeed Muhammad Salim Attia Falaha, after completing procedures to validate his release, following the issuance of his acquittal by the Zagazig Misdemeanor Court of Appeal on June 19, 2023.
Thursday 29 June
The security forces at Al-Qanayat Police Station in Sharkia Governorate released the citizen / Mahmoud Saqr Saqr Hassan, after completing the procedures for validating his release, following the issuance of his acquittal by the Zagazig Misdemeanor Court of Appeal on June 19, 2023.
- Trials:
Saturday 1 July 2023
The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court issued an administrative decision to extend the deadline for pronouncing the ruling in the retrial of one defendant in the case known in the media as the First Al Zaytoun Cell case, for the September 3, 2023 session.
Monday 3 July
The Cairo Criminal Court postponed the retrial of former Finance Minister Boutros Ghaly in the case known in the media as the Customs Administrative Corruption Case to the July 6, 2023 session. In the July 6 session, he was acquitted.
Tuesday, July 4th
The First Chamber of Terrorism in the Cairo Criminal Court postponed the trial of 11 defendants in the case known in the media as the second Al-Shorouk Cell case, to the October 1, 2023 session.
- Legislations and decisions:
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
- The Official Gazette published, in its issue No. 26, Presidential Decree No. 236 of 2023 regarding the transfer of Mr. Ahmed Fawzi Abdel Hafeez, the president of category “B” in the Shebeen El-Koum Primary Court, to a non-judicial position in the Central Agency for Organization and Administration equivalent to the degree of his position, on the background of the issued ruling, accepted by the Disciplinary Council and the authority to judge.
- The Official Gazette published, in its issue No. 26, Presidential Decree No. 237 of 2023 regarding the transfer of Mr. Ahmed Hosni Zakaria Brik – judge at the Helwan Court of First Instance, to a non-judicial position in the Central Agency for Organization and Administration equivalent to the degree of his position, on the background of the ruling issued before him by the Disciplinary Council and the Competence to the Judiciary.
- Prison news:
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
The Ministry of the Interior announced the granting of an exceptional visit to prison inmates during the Eid Al-Adha night or the first days of Eid Al-Adha, provided that it is completed after the end of the Eid vacation for those who did not expend it until Thursday, corresponding to 7/20/2023, and the aforementioned exceptional visit is not counted among the scheduled visits for inmates.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Mr. Ali Abbas Barakat, the lawyer who is in remand detention, died inside his prison cell in Badr Prison, after he was transferred pending a case after obtaining an acquittal in May 2022, following a sharp deterioration in his health condition.
Legal Comment
– The investigations of the Supreme State Security Prosecution with citizens who appear from varying periods of enforced disappearance and accusing them of joining terrorist groups and committing crimes of financing them did not stop. During the period of coverage of the bulletin, the Supreme State Security Prosecution investigated 38 citizens who were arrested during different periods and from different governorates and centers. Within the scope of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the issuance of pretrial detention decisions without the presence of a fair investigation by the Public Prosecution and being content with the records of the investigations ruled by the officers of the National Security Sector, which the Supreme State Security Prosecution considers a certified book with it that does not need other evidence to support and recommend it, as the Court of Cassation ruled in many of its rulings .
– The decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution to release 64 citizens from pretrial detention came as a usual step in the same place that does not benefit progress or movement forward, in light of the investigation and issuance of pretrial detention decisions for dozens of citizens by the same prosecution.
– The Cairo Criminal Court closed the curtain on the trial of Boutros Ghali, the former Minister of Finance during the era of former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, by annulling the 15-year prison sentence and obligating him to return the amount of 35 million and 791 thousand pounds and fining him an equal amount, and to eliminate the criminal case by conciliation in the case known in the media as the customs corruption case. In which Boutros-Ghali was accused of wasting public money, profiteering, and making an illegitimate gain, and the proceedings of the trial began after the revolution of the twenty-fifth of January, against the background of his exploitation of his influence and the issuance of Ministerial Resolution No. 165 of 2005 according to which certain types of selected cars were collected and held at the disposal of their owners at the interest Customs inside a customs yard attached to the Ministry of Finance, and he disposed of these cars without the consent of their owners by allocating 6 cars of them for his personal convoy and 96 cars for other parties, whose value amounted to 35 million and 791 thousand pounds, which led to unlawful consumption of these cars and a decrease in their price in violation of Law No. 66 of the year the Amendment of 1963 regarding customs and its executive regulations, which requires keeping these cars in their condition to hand them over to their owners after paying the fees or selling them and depositing the owner’s share in the treasury of the Customs Authority. However, Egyptian law permitted the return of illegally acquired sums in return for completing reconciliation procedures and closing the criminal case.
– The death of Mr. Ali Abbas Barakat, the lawyer who is in pretrial detention pending one of the cases, after he was rotated after obtaining an acquittal ruling in May 2022 from the Zagazig Misdemeanor Court of Appeal, inside his prison in the Badr City Reform and Rehabilitation Center without the officials inside the center announcing the causes of his death, which raises suspicion and doubt concerning the care of detainees and prisoners from a medical point of view.