{"id":21026,"date":"2021-02-22T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/?p=21026"},"modified":"2021-06-27T23:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:28:49","slug":"the-supreme-state-security-prosecution-completed-the-investigation-with-ahmed-samir-and-charged-him-with-financing-a-terrorist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/en\/legal-updates-en\/legal-news-en\/2021\/02\/22\/21026-afteegypt.html","title":{"rendered":"Filing a report to the attorney general on researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy\u2019s hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day"},"content":{"rendered":"
27 June 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The defense counsel of researcher \u201cAhmed Samir Santawy\u201d filed a report to the attorney general today, on his hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day, since the announcement of the sentence against him, which is four years imprisonment and a fine of 500 EGP in Case No. 774 of 2021 State Security Misdemeanors (the First Settlement), as an objection on the sentence, the report bearing\u00a0 No. 80603 of 2021 attorney general electronic petitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The defense counsel also requested opening an investigation on Santawy\u2019s hunger strike, and hospitalizing him in the prison hospital to monitor his health condition\u00a0 periodically<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s noteworthy that Ahmed Samir Santawy\u2019s family appealed to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to intervene and cancel his prison sentence in order to preserve his future, Human rights organizations also called on the President not to ratify the sentence against him in preparation for its annulment in their statement issued on Wednesday, June 23.<\/span><\/p>\n 22 June 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n State Security Emergency Misdemeanour Court, held at New Cairo Court in the Fifth Settlement, today June 22, 2021, sentenced \u201cAhmed Samir Santawy\u201d to four years in prison and a fine of 500 pounds in Case No. 774 of 2021 Emergency State Security Misdemeanors, registered under No. 877 of 2021 supreme State Security Prosecution, It is worth noting that this court\u2019s ruling cannot be appealed according to the emergency law.<\/p>\n \u201cSantawy\u201d is charged with spreading false news and statements abroad about the domestic situation of Egypt.<\/p>\n It is worth noting that \u201cSantawy\u201d is still detained pending another case, No. 65 of 2021 Supreme State Security.<\/p>\n 8 June 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n State Security Emergency Misdemeanour Court (The First Settlement), had decided at today\u2019s session, June 8, 2021, held at new Cairo court, to set the date for adjudication of Case No. 774 of 2021 State Security (Emergency) Misdemeanour, registered under No. 877 of 2021 supreme state security prosecution, attributed to researcher \u201cAhmed Samir Santawy\u201d in which he\u2019s charged with spreading false news from abroad about the domestic situation in Egypt that could disturb security and public order, joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, to June 22 session.<\/p>\n It should be noted that, at today\u2019s session, the legal defense team asked to include the defendant\u2019s investigation files of case No. 65 of 2021, in which he was investigated in February, before he was recycled in the mentioned above case, as the merits of the current trial are relevant to the merits of the aforementioned case.<\/p>\n The court asked the defense team to plead regarding the lawsuit, and the defense team presented their following plea:<\/p>\n First:<\/strong> Invalidity of and illegality of the evidence derived from the report issued by the General Department of Criminal Evidence, given that what was stated in it regarding the defendant cannot, in any case, be considered a technical examination, owing to the fact that it was proven that the report editor did not see the account attributed to the defendant, and it wasn\u2019t subjected to examination, and it was limited to expressing his opinion in the photocopies sent by the Public Prosecution and submitted by the reporter.<\/p>\n Second:<\/strong> Invalidity of the evidence derived from the national security investigations for its contradiction of reality and truth, and its editor did not follow the correct legal methods and investigations that can be relied upon in the criminal trial.<\/p>\n Third:<\/strong> discrepancy between the reporter\u2019s statements, the investigations\u2019 path, and the report of the General Department of Criminal Evidences.<\/p>\n Fourth:<\/strong> Plea by the absence of the elements of the offenses crimes by the text of Articles 80 and 102 bis of the Egyptian penal law.<\/p>\n The defense team requested the defendant\u2019s acquittal from the charges attributed to him, as the State Security Emergency Misdemeanour Court is an emergency exceptional court in which its sentences cannot be appealed, and these charges may lead to imprison \u201cSantawy\u201d for up to 5 years.<\/p>\n 1 June 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Supreme state security court held at the new Cairo court in the Fifth Settlement, decided to postpone the first session of the trial of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy pending case No. 877 of 2021, in which he was investigated on May 22, to June 8 session.<\/span><\/p>\n the First Trial Session was supposed to take place today, the court gave permission to his lawyers to view and obtain official copies of the case files, while the researcher continued to be imprisoned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It is worth noting that Santawy is still detained pending another case, No. 65 of 2021, Supreme State Security.<\/span><\/p>\n 29 May 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The supreme state security prosecution had referred researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, to a speedy trial before supreme state security court, on charges of spreading false news from abroad about the domestic situation in Egypt, pending case No. 774 of 2021, supreme State Security, the first trial session will be held on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, at the new Cairo court in the Fifth Settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n