Summary:

1. Postponing the trial of human rights lawyer Hoda Abdel Moneim, and rejecting her release request, despite her arrival at the courthouse in an ambulance due to her deteriorating health.
2. The family of activist and prisoner of conscience Alaa Abdel Fattah submits memoranda to the Public Prosecutor to deduct the period of pretrial detention from his sentence and order his release.
3. Citizen Ahmed Abdel Aal El-Gendi died inside Wadi El-Natroun Prison without disclosing the cause of death.
4. Renewing the detention of hundreds of citizens pending Supreme State Security cases.
5. Ministry of Interior denies social media reports of detaining a lawyer inside the 3^rd Settlement Police Station while performing his duties.
6. Maximum prison terms for defendants in the cases of the dispersal of the Nahda sit-in and joining a terrorist group in Boulaq al-Dakrour.
7. Six-month imprisonment for writer and publisher Hisham Kassem for allegedly insulting, defaming, and disturbing former Minister of Manpower and Immigration Nahed al-Ashri. This is the same case in which Kamal Abu Eita was imprisoned for insulting and defaming him.

Details

I.                Prosecution Investigations:

• Supreme State Security Prosecution:

During the bulletin’s coverage period; State Security Prosecution investigates dozens of citizens, under the Anti-Terrorism Law and remanded in custody.

• Public Prosecution:

Sunday, 11 May

• Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated citizen Hani Farag Kamel Gomaa after arresting him from his home and putting him in 21 days enforced disappearance, and then accused him of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements placing him in pretrial detention.
• 10^th of Ramadan-II Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Hamad Muhammad Abd al-Galil and Magied Muhammad al-Said, after arresting them from their homes and accusing them of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements then placing them in pretrial detention.

Monday, 12 May

1. 10^th of Ramadan-II Prosecution in Sharqia investigated Ziad Ali Hamid and Ragheb Samir Ragheb after arresting them from their homes, putting them in enforced disappearance of 30 days for the first and 20 for the second, and accusing them of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements then placing them in pretrial detention.

Tuesday, 13 May

1. Zagazig Total Prosecution in Sharqia investigated 4 citizens after arresting them from their homes, accusing them of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news and statements and then kept them in pretrial detention. They are Mohamed Abdel Moneim Abdullah, Amin Al-Sabbagh, Attia Ahmed Saada, and Saad Ahmed Saada.

II.             Detention Renewal:

Monday, 12 May

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber -II, 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, 2464 of 2023, 2727 of 2023, 2901 of 2023, 2902 of 2023, 2903 of 2023, 3388 of 2023, 3535 of 2023, 523 of 2024, 755 of 2024, 1128 of 2024, and 1644 of 2024 including labor leader Shadi Muhammad and student Omar Al-Ansari, 1939 of 2024, 2285 of 2024, 2627 of 2024, 3817 of 2024, 4240 of 2024, 4278 of 2024, 4937 of 2024 including economic expert Abdel Khaleq Farouk, 5053 of 2024, 5055 of 2024, 6026 of 2024, 6082 of 2024, Supreme State Security.

Tuesday, 13 May

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber -II, 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, 573 of 2022, 1394 of 2022, 1635 of 2022, 1893 of 2022, 392 of 2023, 641 of 2023, 1976 of 2023, 2123 of 2023, 2124 of 2023, 2635 of 2023, 3277 of 2023, 3459 of 2023, 166 of 2024, 757 of 2024, 784 of 2024, 952 of 2024 including the child/Mohamed Mokhtar Ragab, 977 of 2024, 1410 of 2024, 1568 of 2024 including the journalists Yasser Abu Al-Ela and Ramadan Guwaida and the cartoonist Ashraf Omar, 1938 of 2024, 2802 of 2024, 2803 of 2024, 2808 of 2024, 2809 of 2024, 4092 of 2024, 4279 of 2024, 4473 of 2024, 4708 of 2024, 4939 of 2024, 5054 of 2024 including the journalist Ahmed Bayoumi, 5684 Of 2024, 7169 of 2024, 7887 of 2024, 2 of 2025, Supreme State Security.

III.           Acquittal:

Monday, 12 May

• Belbeis Misdemeanor Court in Sharqia accepted the appeal from citizen Reda Mahmoud on precautionary measures against his pretrial detention and ordered his acquittal with precautionary measures on charges of joining a terrorist group.

IV.          Trials:

Sunday, 11 May

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 5 defendants, in Case No. 6484 of 2022, Shorouq Felonies, known as the case of the Ismailia Cell case to the session of 12 June 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 6 defendants, in Case No. 31369 of 2023, Marg Felonies, known as the case of the Marg Terrorist Cell case to the session of 13 July 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 41 defendants, in Case No. 11149 of 2024, Nozha Felonies, known as the case of Nozha Terrorist Cell case to the session of 22 June 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 46 defendants, in Case No. 14874 of 2024, Agouza Criminal Court, known as the case of the 2^nd Agouza Cell to the session of 12 July 2025.

Monday, 12 May

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 5 defendants, in the case known as the case of The Media Cell to the session of 10 June 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 9 defendants, in Case No. 13402 of 2024, known in the medica as the case of the “Currency Network Cell” to the session of 12 July 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 73 defendants, in Case No.11926 of 2022, Settlement Felonies, known in the medica as the case of The Settlement Cell to the session of 22 June 2025.

Tuesday, 13 May

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 73 defendants, in Case No. 1172 of 2024, Supreme State Security, known as the case of the Specialized Committees Cell case to the session of 13 July 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-III, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 6 defendants, in Case No. 13052 of 2022, known as the case of the Agouza Cell to the session of 12 June 2025.

 

Wednesday, 14 May

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 10 defendants, including human rights lawyer and former member of the National Council for Human Rights, Hoda Abdel Moneim, in Case No. 19719 of 2024, Nasr City Felonies, known in the medica as the case of the Special Action Cell case to the session of 14 July 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 64 defendants, in Case No. 6518 of 2023, known in the medica as the case of the New Cairo Cell to the session of 14 July 2025.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 17 defendants, in Case No. 12989 of 2023, Agouza Felonies, known in the medica as the case of the 2^nd Agouza Cell to the session of 28 May 2025.

Saturday, 17 May

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 37 defendants, in Case No. 38 of 2023, State Security Felonies, known as the case of the Specialized Committees Cell case.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-I, held in Badr Prison postponed the retrial of 11 defendants, in Case No. 33779 of 2024, Haram Felonies, known as the case of the Haram ISIS Cell.

V.             Judicial Rulings:

Saturday, 3 May

• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Appeals Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison sentenced 3 defendants to 5 years in prison and 1 defendant to 3 years in prison in Case No. 1443 of 2015, Giza Division, known in the media as the Nahda Sit-In Dispersal Case.
• Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Appeals Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison sentenced 1 defendant to 3 years in prison on charges of joining a terrorist group in Case No. 289 of 2023, Boulaq Felonies.

Tuesday, 13 May

1. Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Appeals Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison sentenced 1 defendant to life sentence on charges of joining a terrorist group in Case No. 51592 of 2013, 40 Police Station Criminal Court, known in the media as the Suez Terrorist Cell Case.

Wednesday, 14 May

• Cairo Economic Criminal Court sentenced writer and publisher Hisham Kassem in absentia to 6 months in prison, a bail of EGP 5,000, a fine of EGP 20,000, and an interim civil compensation of EGP 40,000 for insulting, slandering, and disturbing former Minister of Manpower and Immigration Nahed El-Ashri. This is the same case in which Kamal Abu Eita was imprisoned.

VI.          Prison News:

Saturday, 11 May

• Ahmed Abdel Aal El Gendi, 62, his in-Wadi El Natroun Prison cell, after his detention since 2013 in connection with a case at the Kerdassa Police Station, without a clear cause of death.

Thursday, 15 May

• The family of activist and prisoner of conscience Alaa Abdel Fattah submitted two memoranda to the Assistant Public Prosecutor at the Courthouse regarding deducting the period of pretrial detention from the sentence imposed and releasing him.

The other memorandum was to the Appeals Prosecution Office to determine a chamber to consider the dispute over the implementation of the sentence in Case No. 1228 of 2021, State Security Misdemeanor, 5^th Settlement Emergency, copied from Case No. 1356 of 2019, Supreme State Security.

Legal Comment

Cairo Criminal Court, Terrorism Chamber-II, held in Badr Prison decided to refuse to release human rights lawyer Hoda Abdel Moneim during the first session of her trial in State Security Case No. 730 of 2020.

This raises critical legal and human rights questions, especially since this referral came after the completion of her sentence, which she had served to a ruling by the same court in the case known in the media as the “Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms” case. The case had the same charges of joining a terrorist group and committing a crime of financing terrorism.

 

This raises suspicions of the “rotation” for the purpose of continuing her detention. The seriousness of the decision is in light of the evidence of her deteriorating health, as she attended the trial in an ambulance. She suffers from serious health problems, including: chronic deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, high blood pressure, and severe joint inflammation. She also has a history of heart problems. During her detention, she suffered from a heart attack, complete kidney failure in left kidney, and regurgitation in the right kidney.

Despite this critical health condition, the court did not take into account Article 486 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows for the postponement of custodial sentences for health reasons. This constitutes a clear violation of constitutional guarantees, guaranteeing the right to life and the right to adequate healthcare. It also raises doubts about the adherence to considerations of justice and humanity in such legal and human rights cases.

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