14 July Sessions
Supreme State Security Prosecution
The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew Muhammad Mahmoud Sabry Ismail’s detention for 15 days pending investigations in Case No. 95 of the 2023 Supreme State Security Prosecution.
Ismail was arrested at the airport while returning to Egypt to visit his family from the UAE, where he works.
Ismail was presented to the Supreme State Security Prosecution on May 27, 2024.
He was charged with joining a terrorist group while knowing its purposes, publishing and broadcasting false news and statements that would harm security and public order, and using an account on social media for publishing and broadcasting false news and statements.
Criminal Court
The Criminal Court (Third Circuit) decided to renew the detention of Ahmed Al-Tohamy, the assistant professor of political science at the Faculty of Economic Studies and Political Science at Alexandria University, for 45 days pending investigations of lawsuit No. 649 of 2020 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).
The decision came despite the interruption in the broadcast of his remote trial session, as he was presented via video conference from the Badr Rehabilitation and Correctional Center 1.
The court did not respond to the defense’s request to postpone the session so that he could be presented in person.
Al-Tohamy was arrested on June 3, 2020, and remained under enforced disappearance at a National Security headquarters in Cairo for 17 days. The prosecution’s investigations with Al-Tohamy focused on the accusations of collaborating with the Egyptian activist Mohamed Sultan, who resides in the United States, in the case Sultan filed against the former Prime Minister Hazem Al-Beblawy. Al-Tohamy denied these accusations before the Prosecution and stated that his security targeting was due to his academic research on the Arab Spring revolutions.
The prosecution accused Al-Tohamy of joining a terrorist group, spreading false news, and misusing social media.
On the same day, The First Circuit of The Criminal Court renewed Sherif Elrouby’s detention for 45 days, pending the investigation of lawsuit No. 1634 of 2022 (State Security).
Elrouby was recently diagnosed with severe inflammation of the seventh nerve and is suffering from excruciating pain that reached the point of difficulty in speaking.
His former prison administration in Abou Za’abal refused the Court’s order to transfer him to the prison hospital so he could visit a specialized doctor.
Security forces arrested Elrouby on September 16, only three months after his release from another lawsuit, in which he was detained for a year and a half. The reason for his arrest this time was his participation in a TV channel where he talked about the suffering of political prisoners after their release in living a normal life. He faces the same accusations he faced before in other lawsuits, such as joining a terrorist group, spreading false news, and misusing social media.
15 July Sessions
Criminal Court
The Criminal Court (Third Circuit) renewed Muhammad Taha Abdel Mawjoud Taha’s detention for 45 days, pending investigations in Case No. 2526 of 2023 (Supreme State Security).
On 10 March 2024, Taha was arrested while returning from his work outside the country to spend a vacation with his family.
The next day, Taha was presented to the Supreme State Security Prosecution. He was investigated on charges of joining a terrorist group, publishing and broadcasting false news and data that would harm security and public order, and using an account on social media networks for the purpose of publishing and broadcasting false news and data before the decision to detain him pending investigation was made.
