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6 November 2018 Cairo Criminal Court rejected the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression's (AFTE) appeal on renewing the detention of photojournalist Mohamed El-Husseini for 45 days pending case 915/2017. He and another…

6 November 2018  Giza Criminal Court ordered to release Mohamed Abdel Fattah with precautionary measures after he had spent 22 months of pretrial detention pending case 1149/2018. Abdel Fattah is charged with promoting a terrorist action…

29 October 2018 North Cairo Court rejected the appeal on the detention of El-Watan News photojournalist Zainab Abu Ouna. Accordingly, she will remain in pretrial detention pending case 441/2018. Abu Ouna is accused of joining a terrorist…

4 November 2018  The Supreme Administrative Court adjourned the appeal of former Maspero General Manager, Ali Hussein Abu Hamila, to December 24. Accordingly, Maspero's management and Abu Hamila should submit their final memoranda within…

4 November 2018  State Security prosecutor extended the detention of activist Sameh Ramadan Soudi for 15 days pending investigations in case 1305/2018 State Security. On August 23, Egyptian authorities arrested Soudi along with the former…

4 November 2018  Giza Criminal Court postponed the trial of journalist Ahmed Ali Abdel Aziz, along with others, to December 1, to hear the defense pleading. The defendants are accused of affiliation with an illegal terrorist group,…

4 November 2018 State Security Prosecutor extended the detention of Youm7 journalist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Ezz for 15 days pending investigations in case 205/2015, known as "Mekamleen 1" case. Ezz is accused of joining a terrorist group and…

3 November 2018 Cairo Criminal Court postponed the retrial of case number 1561/2015 to November 15, to continue the hearing of the pleading. The 227 defendants of this case had been previously sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison, on…

1 November 2018  Alexandria's Attarin Prosecution extended the detention of Sohaila Mahmoud and Khadiga Bahaa El-Deen for 45 days pending investigations in case 7438/2018. The two students were detained for conducting a public survey on a…

31 October 2018  State Security Prosecutor has ordered the detention of Ayman Abdel Moa'ty, marketing and distribution manager at Al Maraya publishing house, for 15 days pending case 621/2018. Abdel Moa'ty was arrested from the publishing…