7 October Sessions
Supreme State Security Prosecution
The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed journalist Khaled Mamdouh Mohamed Ibrahim’s detention for 15 days, 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.
8 October 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.
– On the same day, the Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed Muhammad Mahmoud Sabry Ismail’s detention for 15 days pending investigations in Case No. 95 of the 2023 Supreme State Security Prosecution.
Ismail was arrested at the airport while returning to Egypt to visit his family from the UAE, where he works.
Ismail was presented to the Supreme State Security Prosecution on May 27, 2024.
He was charged with joining a terrorist group while knowing its purposes, publishing and broadcasting false news and statements that would harm security and public order, and using an account on social media for publishing and broadcasting false news and information.
Criminal Court
The Cairo Criminal Court (First Circuit Terrorism) renewed the detention of the architect Hassan Abdel Hamid Hassan Ahmed for 45 days pending investigations in Case No. 488 of the 2019 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).
Abdel Hamid was arrested in November 2019 and presented to the prosecution in January 2020 on charges of joining a terrorist group and publishing and spreading false news and statements.
It is worth mentioning that Abdel Hamid was unlawfully detained in an unknown place from the time of his arrest until he was presented to the prosecution in violation of the constitution and the law. He was also tortured during his enforced disappearance.
Abdel Hamid is 55 years old, and suffers from several chronic diseases. He was also injured in a car accident in 1997, which caused cracks and fractures, and the installation of plates and screws in various places in his body.
During his detention, Abdel Hamid was hospitalized more than once. His father passed away in July 2020, and his mother died in April 2023.
10 October Sessions
Qasr al-Nil Prosecution
The Qasr al-Nil Prosecution has released 4 persons on bail of 5,000 Egyptian pounds each, three days after their arrest from the 15 May Bridge during a solidarity stand with the Palestinian cause on the occasion of the October 7 anniversary.
The accused are Nada Muhammad Fakhri Abdel Azim, Habiba Tamer Muhammad Fouad, Shahab Ahmed Rifaat Ahmed, and Abdullah Fahmy Abdel Wahab Fahmy.
The prosecution investigated the four during two sessions on October 9 and 10, on charges of organizing a demonstration, and inciting citizens to break the law, under case number 7331 of 2024, Qasr al-Nil misdemeanors.
