{"id":32419,"date":"2022-09-28T13:58:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/?p=32419"},"modified":"2023-03-29T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T10:46:20","slug":"supreme-state-security-prosecution-renews-the-detention-of-visual-artist-amir-abdel-ghani-for-15-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/en\/legal-profiles-en\/legal-news-en\/2022\/09\/28\/32419-afteegypt.html","title":{"rendered":"Visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani released under guarantee of his place of residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>16 January 2023\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On January 16, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to release visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani, under the guarantee of his place of residence, in connection with case No. 1635 of 2022 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abdel Ghani faced charges of joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that would harm public peace and order, and using a social media account to spread false news and information. Against the backdrop of several posts that Abdel Ghani shared on Facebook dated several years ago about price hikes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>3 January 2023 &#8220;Supreme State Security Prosecution renews the detention of visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani for 15 days against charges of spreading false news&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On January 3. The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew the detention of Amir Abdel Ghani for 15 days in connection with Case No. 1635 of 2022 (Supreme State Security).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security forces arrested Abdel Ghani from his house on September 10, and the prosecution confronted him with nine posts from his Facebook profile dated a few years. as a result, he was charged with joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that would harm public peace and order, and using a social media account to spread false news and information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amir Abdel Ghani is a visual artist and member of the Plastic Artists Syndicate. A Faculty of Art Education graduate, he has many contributions and art exhibitions in Egypt. He participated in the 28th and 29th rounds of the Youth Salon, which the Egyptian Ministry of Culture organizes. He also won the Luxor International Photography Symposium Award in 2017. He participated in the \u201cDay 2\u201d Festival in 2018. He also volunteered in the \u201cFrom being neglected to being precious\u201d exhibition and many art workshops, including the Uskun Contemporary Art Workshop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>20 December 2022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On December 20, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew the pretrial detention of visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani for 15 days in connection with Case No. 1635 of 2022 (Supreme State Security).<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution confronted Abdel Ghani with nine posts from his Facebook profile dated a few years back regarding prices hikes, Abdel Ghani\u2019s father stated that security forces stormed his house and arrested Abdel Ghani in an unknown location; nine days later, he appeared before the Prosecution which charged him with joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that would harm public peace and order, and using a social media account to spread false news and informations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>6 December 2022<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On December 6, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew the detention of visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani for 15 days in connection with Case No. 1635 of 2022 (Supreme State Security).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security forces arrested Abdel Ghani, the member of the visual artist\u2019s syndicate, on September 10, the forces detained him in an unknown place till he appeared before the prosecution, which interrogated him regarding Facebook posts dating back to the years 2015 to 2020, about the high cost of drawing tools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investigations authorities charged him with joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that would harm public peace and order, and using a social media account to spread false news and informations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>11 October 2022 &#8220;Supreme State Security Prosecution renews the detention of visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani for 15 days for \u201cspreading false news\u201d&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On October 11, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew the detention of visual artist and member of the visual artist\u2019s syndicate, Amir Abdel Ghani, for 15 days in connection with Case No. 1635 of 2022 Supreme State Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abdel Ghani was arrested on September 10, and security forces who arrested him led him to an unknown location to his family and lawyers for 9 days till he appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution, which in turn, charged him with joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that would harm public peace and order, and using a social media account to spread false news and statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) submitted a request on October 5 to the Attorney General Hamada Al-Sawy which held No. 46571 of 2022 (Attorney General\u2019s petitions) to release Abdel Ghani; as he had never participated in any political activity, His family also addressed all members of the Presidential Pardon Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>5 October 2022\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The defense team of the visual artist, Amir Abdel Ghani, submitted a request for release to the Public Prosecutor, No. 46571 of 2022, the petitions of the Technical Office of the Public Prosecutor. They also sent a copy of the request to all members of the Presidential Pardon Committee.<br \/>\nAbdel Ghani faced charges of joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that would harm public peace and order, and using a social media account to spread false news and information. Against the backdrop of several posts that Abdel Ghani shared on Facebook dated several years ago about price hikes.<br \/>\nSecurity forces arrested Abdel Ghani from his house on September 10, and the prosecution confronted him with nine posts from his Facebook profile dated a few years.<br \/>\nAmir Abdel Ghani is a visual artist and member of the Plastic Artists Syndicate. A Faculty of Art Education graduate, he has many contributions and art exhibitions in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>27 September 2022 &#8220;Supreme State Security Prosecution renews the detention of visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani for 15 days&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On September 27, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to renew the detention of visual artist and member of the visual artist&#8217;s syndicate, Amir Abdel Ghani, for 15 days in connection with Case No. 1635 of 2022 Supreme State Security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security forces arrested Amir Abdel Ghani on September 10; he was subjected to enforced disappearance in a location unknown to his family and lawyers till he appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution on September 19, which decided to include him in the case mentioned above and to detain him for 15 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the interrogations, the Supreme State Security Prosecution charged Abdel Ghani with joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false news and statements that would harm public peace and order, and using a social media account to spread false news and statements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 January 2023\u00a0 On January 16, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to release visual artist Amir Abdel Ghani, under the guarantee of his place of residence, in connection with case No. 1635 of 2022 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).\u00a0 Abdel Ghani faced charges of joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its aims, spreading false [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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