18 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.
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 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.
19 November Sessions
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.
The Administrative Court
- The Administrative Court (Circuit 14) decided to consider Helwan University’s appeal of the ruling issued in favor of the client of AFTE, granting her the right to be appointed as a teaching assistant, as void. This decision was made because the administrative body failed to complete the required legal procedures to continue the appeal.
Last November, the Administrative Court had ruled to annul Helwan University’s negative decision to refuse the appointment of Afte’s client as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Helwan, on the grounds of a lack of security clearance. The court confirmed that security approval is not a legal requirement for appointments to teaching assistant positions.
It is worth noting that the appellant was one of the top graduates of the 2021 batch at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Helwan. The university officially notified her of her nomination for the teaching assistant position, and her name was included in University Decision No. 526 for the year 2022. However, after receiving their security clearances, the university accepted other candidates for the position and refused to appoint the appellant due to the absence of her security clearance.
The court had referred the case to the State Commissioners’ Authority to prepare a legal opinion, which recommended accepting the case and annulling the negative decision to exclude her from employment. The State Commissioners’ Authority argued that the opinion of security agencies is not a condition for appointment to teaching assistant positions and cannot be used as the sole basis for the administrative body’s decision to appoint or not appoint teaching assistants.
- The Administrative Court of Qalyubia has postponed the hearing of the appeal in the lawsuit filed by AFTE, on behalf of Nada Osama Abdel-Mughny, against the Faculty of Arts at Benha University regarding the negative decision to refuse her appointment as a teaching assistant at the faculty, despite being the top student in her department, to December 16.
The court also authorized the correction of the case format, numbered 7026/11, to include a request to appeal the five-year plan for appointing teaching assistants at the Faculty of Arts, Benha University (Department of Media).
20 November Sessions
Criminal Court
The Cairo Criminal Court (First Circuit Terrorism) decided to renew the detention of 2 persons for 45 days:
1- Student Ahmed Khaled El-Toukhy, pending trial no. 955 of 2020 Supreme State Security.
El-Toukhy is charged with joining a terrorist group, spreading false news and statements that could disturb public security and order, and using a social media account, “Facebook,” to spread false news and information.
It should be noted that he had a release order from the Criminal Court on March 21, 2021, pending Case No. 532 of 2021 Shibin Al Qanater misdemeanor on the same charges, but that order wasn’t implemented, and he was unjustly detained in an unknown place for his family and lawyers until he was presented before the prosecution after 3 months, who ordered to detain him in the current case.
Based on a phone call, el-Toukhy was arrested after he headed to the National Security Premises on September 26, 2020. Then, he didn’t appear until January 12, 2021, before the Shebin Elkom Prosecution decided to detain him.
2- Human rights lawyer Ahmed Nazeer El-Helw for 45 days pending investigations of lawsuit No. 1940 of 2022 Supreme State Security, after about two years in pre-trial detention.
The decision was issued in absentia as El-Helw could not attend the session due to being held at a medical facility following spinal surgery.
Security forces arrested El-Helw from his home on 7 November 2022 in conjunction with the random arrests by the security forces with the increasing calls for demonstrations on 11 November 2022. El-Helw was illegally detained for 6 days till he appeared before the prosecution, facing accusations of joining a terrorist group.
