Summary:
State Security investigations continue into 32 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news.
State Security Prosecution releases 84 citizens hours before the start of the National Dialogue sessions.
Supreme State Security Prosecution investigates dozens of citizens, including journalist Khaled Mamdouh and cartoonist Ashraf Omar, and then accuses them of terrorism charges.
Continuation of the rotation of citizens in Sharqia, to new cases by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, after the disruption of procedures for their release
The deterioration of the health condition of architect Hassan Abdel Hamid.
Cairo Criminal Court Terrorism Chamber continues non-stop to renew the pretrial detention of hundreds of citizens in State Security cases.
Public Prosecution issues a statement regarding the investigation into the publication of video clips in the case known in the media as the 5th Settlement Butcher case.
Details
Arrest and Detention (enforced disappearance)
Monday, 22 July
Security forces arrested Cartoonist at Al Manassa Ashraf Omar, from his home and took him blindfolded to an unknown destination, before appearing at the State Security Prosecution and then investigating him two days after his arrest.
Prosecution Investigations
Supreme State Security Prosecution:
Supreme State Security Prosecution interrogated (during the newsletter’s coverage period) 32 citizens, and put them in pretrial detention for joining a terrorist group and financing and supplying a terrorist group.
Rotation Pending New Cases:
Wednesday, 24 July
Zagazig Prosecution in Sharqia investigated 5 citizens after disrupting the procedures for their release, and placed them in pretrial detention on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news. They are Gamal Mohamed Ahmed, Abdullah Omar Mohamed Gomaa, Talaat Abdel-Baqi Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohamed Mahmoud Saad El-Din, and Hani Mohamed Abdel-Magied.
Detention Renewal:
Monday, 22 July
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, in Badr Prison heard detention renewal sessions for dozens of citizens held in pre-trial detention pending cases. Cases No. are 2397 of 2021, 2467 of 2021, 2976 of 2021, 583 of 2022, 670 of 2022, 191 of 2023, 1470 of 2023, 2124 of 2023, 2388 of 2023, 2468 of 2023, 2527 of 2023, 3620 of 2023, 717 of 2024, Supreme State Security.
Tuesday 23 July
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, in Badr Prison heard detention renewal sessions for dozens of citizens held in pre-trial detention pending cases. Cases No. are 376 of 2012, 630 of 2017, 563 of 2020, 566 of 2020, 575 of 2020, 880 of 2020, 955 of 2020 including photojournalist Hamdi Al-Zaim, 1018 of 2020, 1058 of 2020, 1196 of 2020, 65 of 2021 including 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, 88 of 2023, 585 of 2023, 860 of 2023, 1233 of 2023, 2154 of 2023, Supreme State Security.
Saturday, 27 July
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, in Badr Prison heard detention renewal sessions for dozens of citizens held in pre-trial detention pending cases. Cases No. are 441 of 2018, 1175 of 2018, 470 of 2019, 800 of 2019, 930 of 2019, 1450 of 2019, 1530 of 2019, 1781 of 2019, 570 of 2020, 580 of 2020, 812 of 2020, 855 of 2020, 865 of 2020, 1017 of 2020, 915 of 2021, 991 of 2021, 2175 of 2021, 1 of 2022 (Copied from 1269 of 2019), 440 of 2022, 1042 of 2022 (Copied from 420 of 2017), 1096 of 2022, 1394 of 2022, 2 of 2023 (Copied from 1660 of 2022), 665 of 2024 , Supreme State Security.
Sunday, 28 July
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, in Badr Prison heard detention renewal sessions for dozens of citizens held in pre-trial detention pending cases. Cases No. are 316 of 2017, 238 of 2021, and among the defendants on trial are journalist/ Tawfiq Ghanem and human rights lawyer/ Sayed Khalaf, 1222 of 2021, 1391 of 2022, 1480 of 2022, 2135 of 2022, 203 of 2023, 260 of 2023, 333 of 2023, 352 of 2023, 2469 of 2023, Supreme State Security.
Acquittal:
Monday 22 July
State security prosecution in Cairo decided to acquit 79 citizens in pretrial detention, with the guarantee of their places of residence. They include Ziad Muhammad Ahmad Al-Basyouni and Mazen Ahmad Ezzat Daraz in Case No. 1941 of 2024, Supreme State Security.
Wednesday, 24 July
State security prosecution in Cairo decided to acquit 5 citizens in pretrial detention, with the guarantee of their places of residence. They are Abdul Halim Al-Said Ahmed Amer, Muhammad Ahmed Mahmoud Salim, Hilal Amara Hilal Al-Sayed Hassan, Yasser Muhammad Ahmed Al-Khawli in case No. 1893 of 2022, and Muhammad Ibrahim Ahmed Abdel-Barr in case No. 2369 of 2024, Supreme State Security.
Zagazig Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber, in Sharqia decided to acquit 6 citizens with the guarantee of their residence. They are Al-Baraa Hosseini Abdo Muhammad Al-Sabah, Abdullah Muhammad Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Dahshan, Essam Ibrahim Mahmoud Ali Atta, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Mushrif, Muhammad Sabri Abdel Hamid Al-Sayed Attia, and Othman Jamal Ahmed Al-Baiiadi.
Release:
Friday, 27 July
The security forces in 10th of Ramadan, Sharqia released 3 citizens, after completing the procedures for the validity of his release and the arrival of the National Security signal. They are Sami Mahmoud Ahmed, Mohamed Sami Elwan, and Amr Sami Elwan.
Trials:
Monday, 22 July
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 1 defendant in the case known in the media as Badrashin Terrorist Cell to the session on 21 August 2024.
Saturday, 27 July
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 4 defendants, in the case known in the media as the Omrania Terrorist Cell case to the session in 24 August 2024.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 1 defendant, on charges of joining a terrorist cell to the session on 24 August 2024.
Judicial Rulings:
Wednesday, 26 June
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison ruled to include 17 defendants in Case No. 12989 of 2024 on the terrorism lists for 5 years.
Statements:
Monday, 22 July
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior denied on its official Facebook page a circulating video clip, which included the owner of a restaurant located in one of the tourist villages on the North Coast in Marsa Matrouh. The video included claims that the head of the village occupants union, a retired police officer, used his powers and took arbitrary measures against him in an attempt to seize his restaurant or pay sums of money in exchange for exploiting the restaurant surroundings adjacent to the swimming pool.
Prison news:
Thursday, 25 July
The Egyptian Network for Human Rights announced the health deterioration of architect Hassan Abdel Hamid, who has been in pretrial detention pending case No. 488 of 2019, Supreme State Security, inside his cell in Badr 1 Prison.
Legal Comment
Supreme State Security Prosecution releases 84 citizens who were in pretrial detention pending investigations by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, and at the same time investigated 32 citizens, including journalist Khaled Mamdouh who reappeared from enforced disappearance for 6 days and cartoonist Ashraf Omar after disappearing for 2 days and then imprisoning them on repeated charges. This all happened a few hours before the beginning of the National Dialogue sessions, which included on its agenda a discussion of pretrial detention and its alternatives.
Security forces in Sharqia suspended the implementation of release decisions and rulings issued in favor of citizens and rotated them again on new cases bearing the same charges, after the National Security Sector detained and forcibly disappeared them for varying periods. This establishes a hateful phenomenon in the judiciary, which is the phenomenon of rotating citizens, and proves to everyone that freedom of citizens is in the hands of the National Security Sector alone.