Summary:
State Security investigations continue into 23 citizens on charges of terrorism and spreading false news.
Death of citizen/ Ehab Masoud Goha, who was in pretrial detention pending case No. 1358 of 2019, Supreme State Security, inside his detention center in intensive care at the Amiri Hospital in Alexandria.
Rotation of 30 citizens from Sharqia, to new cases by the Supreme State Security Prosecution, after various durations of enforced disappearance.
Mansoura Administrative Court postpones the appeal by the defense of activist Mohamed Adel to count the period of pretrial detention from the sentence of 4 years in prison, and a report against the warden of Gamassa Prison.
Life sentences and hard labour for the defendants in the case known in the media as the case of the media cell of the Muslim Brotherhood organization.
Investigation of 12 citizens in Sharqia on charges of joining a terrorist group.
Details
Prosecution Investigations
Supreme State Security Prosecution:
Supreme State Security Prosecution interrogated (during the newsletter’s coverage period) 23 citizens, and put them in pretrial detention for joining a terrorist group and financing and supplying a terrorist group.
Public Prosecution:
Sunday, 3 November
Hahia Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Mohamed Abdel Moez, Talaba Hassan Talaba, and Ali Sabry, accusing them of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements.
Thursday, 7 November
Husseiniya Center Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Helmy Abdullah Al-Sayed, Omar Abdel Galil Mohamed, Abdel Qader Abdel Rahman Abdel Qader, Abdel Rahman Al-Sayed Mohamed, after arresting them from their homes on charges of joining a terrorist group.
Belbeis Prosecution in Sharqia investigated citizen Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim Al Kurdi after he appeared after disappearing for 94 days on charges of joining a terrorist group.
10th of Ramadan Prosecution investigated Mohamed Abdel Mawla, Ahmed El Naggar, and Fathy Abdel Samee after their arrest on charges of joining a terrorist group.
Minya Al Qamh Center Prosecution investigated Ibrahim Ahmed Marzouk, Mahrous Ammar El Naggar, and Alaa Rashwan after their arrest on charges of joining a terrorist group.
Rotation Pending New Cases:
Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 3, 4, 6, 7 November
Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia rotated 26 citizens after placing them in enforced disappearance on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news.
Detention Renewal:
Sunday, 3 November
Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of Engineer Yahya Hussein Abdel Hadi for 15 days pending investigations into Case No. 3916 of 2024 on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements.
Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of of 24 citizens for 15 days pending investigations into Case No. 3434 of 2024 State Security, known as the Dignity Revolution case, on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements.
Monday, 4 November
Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of Arab Post journalist Khaled Mamdouh for 15 days pending investigations into Case No. 1282 of 2024 Supreme State Security on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements.
Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of 5 defendants, including the child Mahmoud Alam El-Din Fayrouz Ahmed Badawi (16 years old) for 15 days pending investigations into Cases Nos. 2808 of 2024, 5055 of 2024, 2810 of 2024, 4399 of 2024 Supreme State.
Tuesday, 5 November
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 867 of 2005, 471 of 2017, 1365 of 2018, 563 of 2019, 1780 of 2019, 58 of 2020, 502 of 2020, 534 of 2020, 558 of 2020, 730 of 2020, 786 of 2020 including the deputy head of the Strong Egypt Party, Mohamed Al-Qassas, 1056 of 2020, 590 of 2021, 656 of 2021, 1690 of 2021, 2714 of 2021, 2739 of 2021, 200 of 2022, 5 of 2022, 305 of 2022, 1633 of 2022, 1654 of 2022, 2069 of 2022, 2182 of 2022, 1 of 2023, 524 of 2023, 717 of 2023, 1301 of 2023, 1816 of 2023, 1973 of 2023, 2063 of 2023 including Mohamed Saad Khattab, 2203 of 2023, 2527 of 2023, 2901 of 2023, 3387 of 2023, 3391 of 2023, 3620 of 2023, 165 of 2024, 523 of 2024, 755 of 2024, 756 of 2024, 1128 of 2024, 1408 of 2024, 1570 of 2024, 1641 of 2024, 2801 of 2024, 2807 of 2024, Supreme State Security.
Wednesday, 6 November
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 319 of 2013, 759 of 2014, 148 of 2017, 700 of 2017, 640 of 2018, 1332 of 2018, 1555 of 2018, 1739 of 2018, 650 of 2019, 1413 of 2019, 549 of 2020, 649 of 2020, 680 of 2020, including journalist Medhat Ramadan, 867 of 2020, 979 of 2020, 1006 of 2020, 1053 of 2020, 1107 of 2020, 755 of 2021, 910 of 2021, 911 of 2021, 2000 of 2021, 2055 of 2021, 2215 of 2021, 2556 of 2021, 2993 of 2021, 4 of 2022, 540 of 2022, 635 of 2022, 907 of 2022, 1095 of 2022, 1473 of 2022, 1539 of 2022, 1634 of 2022 including Sherif El-Rouby, 1960 of 2022, 2094 of 2022, 2412 of 2022, 2515 of 2022, 60 of 2023, 85 of 2023, 258 of 2023, 440 of 2023, 931 of 2023, 1468 of 2023, 1978 of 2023, 2369 of 2023, 2526 of 2023, 2992 of 2023, 3460 of 2023, 3615 of 2023, 655 of 2024, 1281 of 2024, 1940 of 2024, Supreme State Security.
Saturday, 9 November
Zagazig Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber renewed the detention of Mohamed El-Sayed Khater and Saeed Ahmed Mohamed for 45 days pending investigations into Case No. 6093 of 2024, Hahia Misdemeanors, on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements.
Acquittal:
Sunday, Monday, Thursday, 3, 4, 7 November
Zagazig Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber in Sharqia released 20 citizens with precautionary measures.
Tuesday, 5 November
Omrania Criminal Court, Chamber 21released citizen Abdullah Tariq Abdel Rahman with a precautionary measure in Case No. 652 of 2024 Misdemeanors of the Omrania Department on charges of joining a terrorist group.
Release:
Thursday, Friday, 7, 8 November
The security forces at Abu Kebir and Zagazig police stations in Sharqia released both Ahmed Mohamed Mansour and Mohamed Metwally Ahmed El-Naggar, after receiving the signal from National Security.
Trials:
Sunday, 3 November
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 2 defendants in Case No. 3257 of 2023, known in the media as the Marg Terrorist Cell Case, to the session of 6 January, 2025.
Monday, 4 November
The Board of Commissioners of the Administrative Court in Mansoura postponed the appeal by the defense team of activist Mohamed Adel against the administrative authority’s decision to implement the ruling against him by the Aga Misdemeanor Court to 4 years in prison in September 2023, excluding the period of pretrial detention estimated at 2 years and 7 months, to the session of 18 November.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 3 defendants, in the case known in the media as Nasra Front 2nd Cell case to the session on 4 January 2025.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 1 defendant in Case No. 15552 of 2023, Badrashin Felonies, on charges of joining a terrorist group to the session of 15 December.
Saturday, 9 November
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the trail of 73 defendants, n Case No. 1172 of 2024, known as the case of the Brotherhood’s Specialized Committees Cell, to the session of 24 December.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison \postponed the trial of 1 defendant in Case No. 4736 of 2022, Settlement Felonies, on charges of joining a terrorist group, to the sentencing session on 8 December.
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the trial of one defendant in case No. 24701 of 2023, Bulaq Felonies, on charges of joining a terrorist group, to the session on 25 November
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the trial of 17 defendants in the case known in the media as the second Agouza cell case, to the session of 7 December
Cairo Criminal Court, Appeals Chamber–II, held in Badr Prison postponed the trial of 4 defendants in the case known in the media as the Kerdasa ISIS cell case, to the session of 7 December
Judicial Rulings:
Monday, 4 November
Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison ruled to sentence 10 defendants, including media professionals (Moataz Matar, Hamza Zobaa, Mohamed Nasser) to life imprisonment and to sentence 6 defendants, including journalist (Hussein Karim) to 15 years of hard labor and to include the defendants on the lists of terrorist entities for 5 years in the case known in the media as the Brotherhood media cell case.
Prison news:
Monday 4 November
Citizen/ Ihab Masoud Goha, who has been in pretrial detention for more than 5 years pending case No. 1358 of 2019 Supreme State Security, died in the Amiri Hospital in Alexandria – 8 days after the electronic session to renew his detention and his failure to appear in it – after his health condition deteriorated.
Tuesday, November 5th
The defense team for activist Mohamed Adel filed a report against Gamasa 2 Prison (Shady Mohamed Hassan) accusing him of obstructing and not implementing judicial orders issued by the Public Prosecution (Belqas Prosecution and North Mansoura General Prosecution) to obtain a personal ID card and a criminal record for Mohamed Adel while he was in prison.
Legal Comment
After eight days of violating the Criminal Procedure Law, where a session was held to renew the detention of citizen/ Ihab Masoud Goha, who has been in pretrial detention for more than five years pending case No. 1358 of 2019
Supreme State Security, known in the media as the “Independence Party” case, and his failure to attend and appear before the court as he was on a ventilator at the Amiri Hospital in Alexandria. And a decision was issued to continue his pretrial detention for 45 days by Counselor/ Wagdy Abdel Moneim, Head of the at the Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III. He died inside his detention center in intensive care after his health condition deteriorated. During the five years, Juha’s health deteriorated during his illegal detention. In addition to suffering from diabetes, the complications of which appeared during his detention, he was infected with water on his lungs in Badr 1 Prison. During his third year of illegal pretrial detention, and with the deterioration of his health condition, he became a wheelchair-bound person unable to move independently, his health condition required repeated water extractions on his lungs. However, the prisons only performed the operation twice. With the sufficiency of giving him antibiotics, which affected his general health, so Goha passed away after suffering that could have been avoided by applying the texts of the law and not the spirit of the law.
The campaigns of arresting citizens in Sharqia and referring them to the prosecution on charges of joining groups without providing clear evidence, raise serious questions about the commitment to the legal and human rights framework that must be followed to ensure the achievement of justice and the protection of the basic rights of individuals. From a legal standpoint, Egyptian law requires that any accusations against individuals be based on conclusive evidence and indications, which was not available in most of these cases.
The refusal of the warden of Gamasa 2 Prison to implement the decisions of the Belqas and North Mansoura General Prosecutions to issue a personal ID card and a criminal record for activist Mohamed Adel in his prison represents a violation of the authority of the Public Prosecution, and reflects a state of rebellion against the decisions of the judiciary, and this refusal is also a violation of the rights of detainees to obtain official documents that guarantee their right to defend themselves or exercise their legal rights.