20 January 2025 AFTE condemns the detention of writer and journalist Ahmed Serag in connection with a new opinion case, on the usual charges of joining a terrorist group, spreading false news, and using a website to promote terrorism. Serag…

On January 15, 2025, plainclothes police officers arrested journalist Ahmed Mostafa Ahmed Serag, known as "Ahmed Serag," from his workplace at the King Fahd Complex School in Nasr City without informing him of the reasons for his arrest.…

12 January Session  Administrative Court The Administrative Court (First Circuit) has decided to refer Dr. Manar Al-Tantawy's appealto the Eighteenth Circuit, as it is the court that issued the unimplemented ruling in the ongoing legal…

9 February 2025 The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed Ahmed Mostafa Ahmed Serag's detention for 15 days pending investigations in Case No. 7 of 2025 (Supreme State Security). Serag faces several charges, including joining a…

On September 16, 2024, a police force arrested journalist Ahmed Mohamed Mostafa Bayoumy, known as "Ahmed Bayoumy," at dawn from his home on Faisal Street in Giza Governorate. Bayoumy was forcibly disappeared for at least 47 days, during…

12 January  2025 The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) reiterates its rejection of the draft criminal procedure law, which the House of Representatives continues to discuss today after approving 61 articles without…

6 January Sessions  Criminal Court The Cairo Criminal Court decided to renew the detention of 8 persons for 45 days:  1- Al-Tantawy’s presidential campaign member, Khaled Abdel Wahed Amin, pending investigations of lawsuit No. 191 of 2023…

11 January 2025 The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the disappearance of journalist and poet Abdulrahman Youssef Al-Qaradawi since January 8, 2025, following his boarding of a private plane bound for Abu Dhabi.…

On 10 March 2024, a security force raided the house of journalist Yasser Abu Al-Ela in Giza Governorate, arrested him, and took him to an unknown location, where he remained forcibly disappeared for more than a month. Abu Al-Ela was…

On 1 May 2024, a security force stopped journalist Ramadan Guwaida Shehata on his way home in Ashmoun, Menoufia Governorate. They asked him for his name and then arrested him. Shehata disappeared for 40 days, before appearing on 10 June…