On 1 May 2024, a security force stopped journalist Ramadan Guwaida Shehata on his way home in Ashmoun, Menoufia Governorate. They asked him for his name and then arrested him. Shehata disappeared for 40 days, before appearing on 10 June 2024 before the Supreme State Security Prosecution in the Fifth Settlement. The prosecution remanded him in custody pending investigation into Case No. 1568 of 2024 (Supreme State Security Prosecution) on charge of joining a terrorist group.
According to a lawyer at the Egyptian Observatory, Shehata’s name was mentioned in an investigation with a journalist who worked for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice website in 2012.
Shehata has been working for Al-Youm news website since 2020 and previously worked at the Freedom and Justice website in 2012. He was scheduled to be registered in the Journalists Syndicate in a meeting of the registration committee held on 22 July 2024, but he was unable to attend due to his detention, despite successfully passing all the courses qualifying for registration.
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