26 February 2024 sessions
Criminal Court
The Cairo Criminal Court (Third Circuit Terrorism) decided to renew the detention of Muhammad Fathallah Rushdi Zayan for 45 days pending investigations in Case No. 2727 of 2023, Supreme State Security, on charges of participating with a terrorist group in achieving its goals, publishing and broadcasting fake news and statements that would harm security and public order, and using an account on the internet for the purpose of publishing and broadcasting fake news and statements.
Zayan was arrested on October 15, 2023, from his home in Beni Suef Governorate based on an arrest warrant in another case No. 2255 of 2023, Supreme State Security, the case of electoral process papers of potential candidate Ahmed Al-Tantawi. The prosecution investigated him on the same day, and he was detained pending investigations.
On October 25, 2023, the prosecution excluded him from referral to trial in the electoral process papers case and copied his papers to the case in which he is now being held in pretrial detention.
Zayan was confronted with a video clip that he posted on his Facebook account from the conference of the potential candidate at the time, Ahmed Al-Tantawi, during his visit to Beni Suef Governorate. A TV channel took that video and broadcast it on its screen.
27 February 2024 sessions
Criminal Court
- The Criminal Court (twentieth Circuit) decided to release Khaled Galal Helmy, pending investigations into lawsuit No. 1984 of 2021 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).
The court replaces pre-trial detention with precautionary measures as he is obligated to spend 2 hours per week at a police station.
On February 8, 2023, security forces arrested Helmy and added him to case no. 935 of 2023 (Rod Al-Farag misdemeanor).
Helmy faces charges of promoting verbally and in writing to disrupt the provisions of the constitution and the law, preventing a state institution from performing its work, attacking the freedoms of citizens, harming national unity and social peace, and joining a terrorist group.
- The Zagazig Criminal Court refused the prosecution appeal on its decision to release Omar Mahmoud Al-Hout pending investigations in Case No. 24978 of 2021 (Abo Hamad Misdemeanors), and decided to release him.
Al-Hout was arrested in 2014 when he was 24 years old, from the Zagazig University campus. After ten years in prison and being rotated in different cases with the same accusations, Al-Hout is now 34 years old; his detention is still under renewal instead of releasing him.
Al-Hout faces charges of joining a terrorist group and possessing publications that promote its ideas.
29 February 2024 sessions
Administrative Court
The Administrative Court (Second Circuit) decided to accept the appeal of the lawsuits filed by AFTE against the negative decision of the Acting Professions Syndicate to refrain from registering Ahmed Abdel Moneim Shuaib and Sherine Fathi Mohamed, while it rejected the appeal of Amr Abdel Halim Hassan, in terms of form.
The appeals numbered 7551, 7553, and 7556 of 77 Judicial years.
Last November, appeals were filed against the Syndicate Of Artists’ negative decision to refrain from registering them in the Syndicate, despite fulfilling all the conditions that qualify them to obtain the Syndicate membership, as well as the Syndicate’s refusal to review their applications or to clarify any reasons for refusal.
