The detention of five defendants renewed; Criminal Court sets the date of lawsuit against Ayman Mansour Nada for adjudication to March 31 session
Criminal Courts
On Tuesday, January 25th, Cairo Criminal Court (Circuit 27 South) decided to set the date of lawsuit No. 9840 of 2021 (Fifth Settlement Misdemeanour) against Ayman Mansour Nada, the head of the radio and television department at Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communication, for adjudication to the next March 31 session.
Nada faces – over articles published on a Facebook account attributed to him – charges of publicly and maliciously publishing false news about Egyptian media that would disturb public peace and harm the public interest, insulting the Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) and the National Press Authority, in addition to insulting several SCMR members and the director of the media syndicate.
The 49-year-old Nada suffers from several health problems, most notably coronary insufficiency, diabetes, and neuritis.
Wednesday’s January 26 sessions
The Criminal Court (The 3rd Circuit Terrorism) decided to renew the detention of Mohamed Salah Abdel-Aziz for 45 days pending investigations in connection with his second case No. 855 of 2020 (Supreme State Security). The court also decided to renew Ahmed Yousry Ghaly’s detention for 45 days pending investigations in connection with the same case.
A police force arrested Salah on November 29, 2019, on the following day, he was presented to the Supreme State Security Prosecution in connection with Case No. 488 of 2019 Supreme State Security Prosecution, after eight months of pretrial detention, the Cairo Criminal Court ordered to release of him, however, the Ministry of Interior refrained from executing the order and detained Salah illegally inside the Dar al-Salaam police station for 34 days where he was subjected to physical assault and violence till he was rotated pending the current case.
Security forces broke into the house of engineer and former member of the Al-Dostor Party Ghaly on August 25, 2020, against the background of publishing a Facebook post.
Salah and Ghaly both face charges of joining and financing a terrorist group, spreading false news using a social media account.
– The Criminal Court decided to renew the detention of accountant Alaa Essam for 45 days, pending investigations of Case No. 930 of 2019 (Supreme State Security). Known in the media as the “Alliance of Hope” case.
Security forces arrested Essam from his house on June 28, 2019, the following day he was presented before the Supreme State Security Prosecution in connection with the current case.
Essam is charged with joining a terrorist group in its activity, Using the Internet to commit a crime, and spreading false news. Notably, The Egyptian Authorities released activist Ramy Shaath the previous convicted in the same case,
In the same context, The Criminal Court decided to renew the detention of both Mohamed Oxygen and Sameh Saudi for 45 days pending investigations of Case No. 855 of 2020 (Supreme State Security). On a charge of joining a terrorist group.
Notably, both defendants were rotated in connection with the current case, after their release orders were issued in connection with other cases, and recently, the Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court issued a four-year prison sentence to Oxygen in connection with Case No. 1228 of 2021 (Emergency State Security Misdemeanor The Fifth Settlement) on a charge of spreading false news domestically and abroad.
