25 August Sessions
Supreme State Security Prosecution
The Supreme State Security Prosecution has renewed the detention of 2 persons for 15 days, who are:
1- Asmaa Mohamed Zakariya, pending investigations in Case No. 2810 of 2024, Supreme State Security Prosecution.
On June 29, 2024, Asmaa turned herself in at the police station near to her home after a police force visited her home in her absence. She was stopped there unlawfully until she was brought before the Supreme State Security Prosecution on July 3, 2024.
The prosecution has charged her with joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that could harm public security, and using a social media account to spread and broadcast false information.
The prosecution challenged her with several posts about the electricity outage crisis on her Facebook account, and she was also confronted with her mobile phone, which she admitted owning.
It is worth noting that Asmaa is a mother of two young children, for whom she is responsible.
2- Muhammad Mahmoud Sabry Ismail, 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 (First Circuit) renewed Sherif Elrouby’s detention for 45 days, pending the investigation of lawsuit No. 1634 of 2022 (State Security).
Elrouby previously complained of severe facial nerve inflammation in a prior session, which caused excruciating pain that made it difficult for him to speak. Elrouby accused the administration of the 10th of Ramadan Prison of refusing treatmenting his or to refer him to a specialist doctor.
The same complaint was repeated several times over the past months, as 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.
– On the same day, The Third Circuit at the same court renewed 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).
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.
26 August Sessions
Mahmoud Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, known as the “T-shirt Detainee,” was released after 3 years in prison in case No. 37883 of 2017, Al-Marg Felony, on charges of joining an illegal group and participating in a demonstration.
The case date back to January 2014, when Al-Marj police forces arrested him when he was 17 years old, and presented him to the Public Prosecution, which detained him on charges of “joining a group established in violation of the law, incitement and participation in demonstrations, and possession of explosives,” before he was released in March 2016.
Last August, Hussein was arrested from an ambush in Giza Governorate, in implementation of a ruling in absentia issued against him by the Emergency State Security Court in 2018 to life imprisonment, in the current case.
In August 2023, Hussein was arrested from an ambush in Giza Governorate, in implementation of a ruling in absentia issued against him by the Emergency State Security Court in 2018 to life imprisonment, in the current case.
He was then released on financial guarantee on May 26, 2024, about a month after the court’s decision, while he remained unjustly detained at the Khanka Police Department.
In June 2024, The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced him 3 years in prison and Mahmoud was immediately arrested to complete the rest of his sentence, as he spent about two years and 10 months in pretrial detention pending the case.
Supreme State Security Prosecution
The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed journalist Khaled Mamdouh Mohamed Ibrahim’s detention for 15 days, pending investigation in case number 1282 of the 2024 Supreme State Security Prosecution.
On 21 July, Mamdouh was presented to the prosecution without any evidence or attachments, 6 days after raiding his home and enforcing his disappearance.
He was accused of joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its objectives, financing a terrorist group, and publishing and broadcasting fake news and statements that would harm security and public order.
The prosecution seized his phone and laptop.
On July 17, AFTE filed a complaint with the Attorney General, numbered 846067 for the year 2024, detailing the events of security forces raiding the home of journalist Khaled Mamdouh and taking him to an unknown place on July 16.
In the complaint, AFTE stated that a security force searched Mamdouh’s home randomly, and refused to disclose their identities, their affiliation, or the reason for his arrest.
His family has been unable to determine his place of detention or communicate with him before presenting him to the prosecution.
It is worth mentioning that Mamdouh’s arrest report was dated 20 July, not the date of his actual arrest on 16 July.
