21 April 2024 sessions
Administrative Court
The Administrative Judiciary Court will issue its verdict (Sixth Circuit) in appeal No. 57029 of 74, filed by AFTE against the decision of the Taibah Higher Institute to dismiss the student Omar Muhammad Ali on 12 May.
AFTE presented to the court at the April 21 session a report proving it informed the institute of receiving a certificate from the military prosecution, which proved AFTE’s claim that Ali was imprisoned and not absent.
On 10 March, the judge decided that the institute should be informed in its legal domicile and not through the State Council, given that the institute’s representative did not attend the previous session.
AFTER insisted on reserving the case for ruling in the next session, which the court approved.
Omar is spending his eighth year in detention after he was sentenced to 25 years in prison on February 7th, 2016. Since then, he has been trying to continue his studies at Thebes Higher Institute of Engineering, Architecture Engineering department, as he was arrested while enrolled in the third year.
22 April 2024 sessions
Misdemeanor Court
Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Misdemeanor Court renewed the detention of Khaled Jalal Helmy for 15 days pending investigations in Case No. 1113 of 2024, Al Darb Al-Ahmar misdemeanor, on charges of joining a terrorist group and possessing ammunition.
The decision came after Rawd Al-Farag Misdemeanor of Appeals Court had decided on 8 April to cancel a decision to release Khaled, which was issued by Rawd Al-Farag Misdemeanor Court.
On February 27, the North Cairo Criminal Court released Helmy and decided to replace detention with a precautionary measure. However, Rowd Al-Farag Police Station did not implement the decision, and Khaled was detained in the department until he was presented with a new case.
Helmy is a mosque’s custodian from the Sahel Rowd al-Farag, and he is 50 years old.
23 April 2024
Criminal Court
The Cairo Criminal Court decided to release Mahmoud Muhammad Ahmed Hussein, known as the “T-shirt Detainee,” and postpone his trial to the session of 26 June 2024, as he faces a life sentence in absentia on charges of possessing firecrackers, to re-plead the case and oblige the prosecution to submit the original case.
AFTE is defending Hussein and cooperating with Mr. Khaled Ali’s law firm.
In August 2023, Hussein was arrested in an ambush in Giza Governorate, in implementation of the verdict in absentia issued against him from the Emergency State Security Court in 2018 to life imprisonment in lawsuit No. 37883 of 2017 against charges of possession of firecrackers, which is the same case for which he was imprisoned for more than two years.
The events of the lawsuit date back to January 25, 2014, when the Al-Marg police forces arrested him when he was 17 years old, issued a report No. 715 of 2014, and referred him to the public prosecution office, which charged him with “joining a group established in violation of the provisions of the law, incitement and participating in demonstrations and possessing firecrackers.” He was released in March 2016.
