3 November Session
Supreme State Security Prosecution
The Supreme State Security Prosecution has renewed the detention of Asmaa Mohamed Zakariya for 15 days 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 to owning.
It is worth noting that Asmaa is a mother of two young children, for whom she is responsible.
4 November Sessions
Supreme State Security Prosecution
The Supreme State Security Prosecution has renewed the detention of 2 persons for 15 days:
1- Journalist Khaled Mamdouh Mohamed Ibrahim, pending investigation in case number 1282 of the 2024 Supreme State Security Prosecution.
During a previous session, Mamdouh complained about the dire living conditions and water shortages at Abu Zaabal Prison, as well as mistreatment by the prison administration, after the prosecution allowed Mamdouh to speak with them during the session.
He also requested to know the reasons for his detention and the accusations against him, without being confronted with any actual crime.
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.
2- Yasser Ibrahim Ibrahim AlNasery, pending investigations in Case No. 5055 of 2024 (State Security).
AlNasery faces charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, financing said organization, using an online account to commit a crime, and misusing communication tools.
He was arrested on 12 October 2024 and and brought before the prosecution for questioning on 28 October. The accused is a doctor residing in Gharbia Governorate and is currently held in Al-Ashir Prison 6.
5 November Session
Criminal Court
The Criminal Court (First Circuit) decided to renew the detention of Mohamed Al-Qassas, vice president of the Strong Egypt Political Party, for 45 days pending his third lawsuit, No. 786 of 2020 (Supreme State Security).
Al-Qassas was arrested in February 2017, coinciding with an extensive arrest campaign launched by the security forces against members and leaders of the Strong Egypt Political Party. He was involved as a defendant in his first lawsuit, No. 977 of 2017, known in the media as the “Mekamleen 2 lawsuit.” after nearly 22 months in pretrial detention, the prosecution ordered his release. However, a few days later, the prosecution interrogated and listed him in a second lawsuit, No. 1781 of 2019, over the same accusations he previously faced.
On August 5, 2020, the Criminal Court ordered Al-Qassas to be released with precautionary measures. Still, the decision was not implemented, and for the third time, Al-Qassas was included in lawsuit No. 786 of 2020, and one more time, over the same accusations. In 2021, the Supreme State Security Prosecution listed Al-Qassas in his fourth lawsuit, No. 440 of 2018. It later referred this lawsuit to the Emergency State Security Court, which sentenced Al-Qassas to 10 years in heavy prison and police observation for five years after the sentence ended.
Al-Qassas is detained over accusations of being a part of a terrorist group with knowledge of this group’s aims and spreading and publishing false news and information.
6 November Sessions
Criminal Court
Cairo Criminal Court renewed the detention of 4 persons for 45 days, who are:
1- Ahmed Abdel Mageed Oraby, pending investigations of lawsuit No. 2094 of 2022 (Supreme State Security), in which Oraby is accused of sharing Facebook discussing poor living conditions.
Oraby lost his eye in the clashes of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, and he was previously imprisoned for a year and a half. This time, he was arrested in November 2022.
He faces accusations of joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its purposes, committing a terrorist financing crime, inciting a terrorist act, participating in a criminal agreement to commit a terrorist crime, spreading false news and statements, and using an account on social media to commit a crime.
2- Poet Galal ElBehairy, pending the investigation of lawsuit No. 2000 of 2021 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).
One week before, AFTE submitted a request to the Attorney General, numbered 60030 for the year 2024, the Technical Office, demanding the immediate release of Poet Galal ElBehairy following the expiration of his pretrial detention that was provided for in Article 143 of the Criminal Procedure Code in lawsuit No. 2000 of 2021 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).
This is the third lawsuit against ElBehairy after his arrest for writing the song “Balaha,” which criticizes the current president’s policies.
ElBehairy was arrested on March 3, 2018, against accusations in two lawsuits.
He was released from the first one, No. 480 of 2018, with precautionary measures on 17 April 2019. He was referred to a military court for the second lawsuit and sentenced to three years in prison, which ended on 31 July 2021.
However, the Ministry of Interior refrained from implementing the procedures for ElBehairy’s release, and he remained illegally detained.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution interrogated ElBehairy in a new lawsuit, no. 2000 of 2021, and he remains in pretrial detention on similar accusations.
3- Sherif Elrouby, pending the investigation of lawsuit No. 1634 of 2022 (State Security).
Elrouby previously complained during a session of severe inflammation of the facial nerve, which has caused him intense pain and difficulty speaking, accusing the administration of Al-Ashir Men Ramadan Prison of refusing him treatment or access to a specialist.
During the session, Elrouby’s defense submitted a written request to allow him to be examined by a radiology specialist to treat the facial nerve condition he had been suffering from for nine months. The prison administration continued to withhold the necessary treatment despite repeated appeals from his defense to the Public Prosecution without response.
El-Rouby has frequently complained about delayed medical care in recent months. Additionally, his previous prison administration in Abu Zaabal refused to carry out the court’s order to transfer him to the prison hospital for specialized medical care.
Security forces initially arrested Elrouby on September 16, 2023, just three months after he had been released from a different case, where he had served a year and a half. This time, he was detained after appearing on a television channel, speaking about the challenges political detainees face in returning to normal life post-release. In this case, he faces the same charges he faced previously: joining a terrorist organization, spreading false news, and misusing social media platforms.
4- 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.
