Summary:

1. Referral of papers of 2 defendants in the case of assassination of Major General Nabil Farag and Qena ISIS cell to the Grand Mufti, and setting sessions for the death sentence.
2. The sentencing of a defendant to 3-year of hard labour in the Kafr Hakim Church burning case, as well as acquittal of a citizen of charges of joining a terrorist group in Boulaq.
3. Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber continues to renew trials for hundreds of citizens on terrorism cases on paper.
4. Rotation of 8 citizens in Sharqia, to new cases by the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
5. Supreme State Security Prosecution investigates dozens of citizens, including Ahmed Salah Abdullah Qorani, after he reappeared following a five-year enforced disappearance.
6. Arrest of the son of Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh while renewing his driver’s license, allegedly because of a court ruling against him.

Details

I.                   Prosecution Investigations:

• Supreme State Security Prosecution:

During the bulletin’s coverage period; State Security Prosecution investigates — citizens, including some of whom had been forcibly disappeared, such as Ahmed Salah Abdullah Qorani, who has been forcibly disappeared for five years, under the Anti-Terrorism Law and remanded in custody.

• Public Prosecution:

Thursday, 17 April

• Hussainia Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Amira Mohamed Sirag who appeared after 15 days enforced disappearance, and then accused him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements.

II.                Rotation Pending New Cases:

Tuesday, 15 April

1. Kafr Saqr Prosecution in Sharqia rotated 3 citizens, after investigating them on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements, and then detained for 15 days. They are Mohamed Ahmed Mahmoud El-Beheiri, Omar Awad Ahmed El-Shazli, and Reda Mohamed El-Sayed.

Wednesday, 16 April

1. Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia rotated 5 citizens to new cases, after investigating them on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements, and then detained for 15 days. They are Hassan Fathy El-Tayeb, Ahmed Atef Abdel Sattar, Youssef Mahmoud Abdo, Mohamed El-Shabrawi, and Ahmed Zaki Mohamed Abdel Basset.

III.             Detention Renewal:

Sunday, 13 April

• The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of student Ahmed Mustafa Hamedto for — 15 pending case No. 2801 of 2024 Supreme State Security, on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements.

 

Monday, 14 April

• The Supreme State Security prosecution renewed the detention of Walid Muhammad al-Said for 15 days pending investigations into Case No. 847 of 2025, Supreme State Security, on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing false news and statements.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber -III, held at Badr Prison considered a session to renew the detention of hundreds of citizens pending cases Nos. 460 of 2020, 1017 of 2020, 2174 of 2021, 2032 of 2022, 294 of 2023, 585 of 2023, 1001 of 2023, 1160 of 2023, 1233 of 2023, 2464 of 2023, 2727 of 2023, 2902 of 2023, 2903 of 2023, 3388 of 2023, 3535 of 2023, 523 of 2024, 755 of 2024, 1128 of 2024, 1939 of 2024, and 2285 of 2023. 2024, 3817 of 2024, 4240 of 2024, 4278 of 2024, 4500 of 2024, 4937 of 2024 including economic expert Abdel Khaleq Farouk, 5053 of 2024, 5055 of 2024, 6026 of 2024, Supreme State Security.

Tuesday, 15 April

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber -III, held at Badr Prison considered a session to renew the detention of hundreds of citizens pending cases Nos. 376 of 2012, 385 of 2017, 623 of 2018, 467 of 2020, 535 of 2020, 812 of 2020, 880 of 2020, 440 of 2022 including journalist Donia Samir, 573 of 2022, 1493 of 2022, 1635 of 2022, 1893 of 2022, 2 of 2023 (copied from 1660 of 2022), 86 of 2023, 191 of 2023, 260 of 2023, 330 of 2023, 392 of 2023, 453 of 2023, 641 of 2023, 860 of 2023, 1467 of 2023, 1976 of 2023, 2123 of 2023, 2124 of 2023, 2194 of 2023, 2635 of 2023, 3277 of 2023, 3459 of 2023, 166 of 2024, 757 of 2024, 784 of 2024, 952 of 2024 including child/Mohamed Mokhtar Ragab, 977 of 2024, 1410 of 2024, 1568 of 2024 including journalists Yasser Abu Al-Ela and Ramadan Guwaida and cartoonist Ashraf Omar, 1938 of 2024, 2802 Of 2024, 2803 of 2024, 2808 of 2024, 2809 of 2024, 4092 of 2024, 4279 of 2024, 4356 of 2024, 4473 of 2024, 4708 of 2024, 4939 of 2024, 5054 of 2024 including journalist Ahmed Bayoumi, 5684 of 2024, 6171 of 2024 Supreme State Security

IV.            Acquittal:

Thursday, 17 April

• Shebin El-Kom Misdemeanor Court in Menoufia decided to acquit Mahmoud Hamed Abdel Aziz Ibrahim on L.E. 2,000 bail after investigating him in Case No. 2156 of 2025, Shebin El-Kom Administrative, and accusing him of spreading false news and statements and participating with a terrorist group in achieving its goals.
• Giza Criminal Court, Chamber-V in Giza, decided to to replace the pretrial detention of citizen Sameh Gomaa Sayed Mohamed with a precautionary measure in Case No. 16367 of 2024, Giza Misdemeanor, and accusing him of spreading false news and statements and participating with a terrorist group in achieving its goals.

V.               Trials:

Saturday, 13 April

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 57 defendants, in Case No. 4743 of 2024, Shorouq Criminal Code, known as the case of the Muslim Brotherhood Specialized Committees Cell to the session of 24 May 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Appeals Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 6 defendants, in Case No. 13052 of 2022, Agouza Felonies, known as the case of Agouza Cell to the session of 13 May 2025.

Monday, 14 April

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 115 defendant, in Case No. 5490 of 2024, Qasr al-Nil Criminal Court, known as the case of the Armed Committees Cell to the session of 26 May 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 37 defendants, in Case No. 1530 of 2020, , known as the case of Joker Cell to the session of 26 May 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison decided to refer 1 defendant to the Grand Mufti of the Republic for a legal opinion on his execution, in the case known as the case of Qena ISIS to the sentencing session of 27 May 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison decided to refer 1 defendant to the Grand Mufti of the Republic for a legal opinion on his execution, in the case known as the case of assassination of Major General Nabil Farag, to the sentencing session of 11 June 2025.

Tuesday, 15 April

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 5 defendant, in Case No. 6482 of 2022, Shorouk Felonies, known as the case of Ismailia Cell to the session of 11 May 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 73 defendant, in Case No. 1172 of 2024, known as the case of the Specialized Committees Cell cell to the session of 13 May 2025.

 

Wednesday, 16 April

• Ahmed Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh was arrested while completing the procedures for renewing his car license. He was sentenced in absentia to a10-year sentence in prison in the same case in which his father, Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, was sentenced. He was placed in 10^th of Ramadan Prison-II.

Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison scheduled a session for 27 April 27, to review the proceedings in the in absentia ruling issued against him, which he was unaware of.

VI.            Statements and Information:

Tuesday, 15 April

• The Ministry of Interior announced granting 2 exceptional visits during the period from Tuesday, 22 April – Thursday, 29 May 29, on the occasion of Easter and Sinai Liberation Day.

Legal Comment

Ahmed Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh was arrested because he had been convicted in absentia in the same case as his father, former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, which is shocking.

Neither Ahmed, his lawyers, nor his family knew he was even a defendant in the case. He had been living a normal life for years, until he went to renew his driver’s license, when he was arrested and taken to the 10^th of Ramadan Prison, pending a retrial for the 10-year sentence imposed on him!

How and why was he not notified from the beginning to defend himself?

These questions once again confirm the absence of the rule of law and the values ​​of a fair trial.

The Terrorism Chamber of the Cairo Criminal Court, during the pretrial detention renewal hearings in State Security cases, on 15 April, terminated contact with the 10^th of Ramadan Prison-VI and renewed the detention of all defendants without their presence or hearing.

This constitutes a clear violation of Article 54 of the Egyptian Constitution, which guarantees every detainee the right to contact their lawyer, as well as Article 143 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which requires the court to present the defendant to the hearing when considering a detention renewal, stripping the court of its inherent status.