Articles for Egypt

Human rights sources reported that the forcibly disappeared Mr. Walid Fouad Al Ghunaimi Al Maghazi appeared before the State Security Prosecution on 27 October 2022 who decided to detain him in Abu Zaabal prison. His family was unable to visit him or access to his criminal case file.

Alkarama has learned that the Egyptian authorities have released the young Egyptian, Karim Yasser Abdelnabi Abdelazim, pending further investigation -whose details remain unknown-, and whose case was submitted by Alkarama on behalf of the family to the United Nations Special Procedures. 

On 4 October 2022, Najda for Human Rights and Alkarama launched an urgent appeal to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances regarding the situation of Mr Walid Fouad Al Ghunaimi AL MAGHAZI who was arrested in front of his home on 17 September 2022 at 1:00 am by several members of the Egyptian security services. 

The family of detainee Abdel Rahman ELSAYAR said Egyptian authorities had transferred their son to Badr prison, east of Cairo.  Badr is a recently created prison complex which, according to the authorities, is dedicated to the reception of prisoners serving short sentences, and where “emphasis is put on their professional qualification”.

On 22 June 2022, Alkarama submitted the case of Abdelrahman Ali Mohammed Ali ELSAYAR and Hossam Ali Mohamed Hegazy HAMZA to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, both of whom were arbitrarily arrested by the Egyptian security forces and then sentenced to long prison terms following unfair trials.

The facts

The case of Abdelrahman ELSAYAR

On 7 June 2022, Alkarama addressed to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) asking them to call on the Egyptian authorities to release the staff members of former Egyptian President Dr Mohamed Morsi arrested following the military coup in 2013.

On 25 April 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances regarding the situation of Karim Yaser Abdulnabi ABDULAZIM, an Egyptian arrested by security forces in the governorate of Al Sharqiyyah (north-east, Egypt) on 12 April 2022.

The "Stop the Execution" campaign confirms that the death sentences issued in Egypt recently, the executions of 105 political detainees, and executions that can be carried out at any time against 95 of those sentenced to death, especially those who had their final and enforceable sentences in 18 cases among the cases described as political, are kinds of (political revenge), far from trying to achieve justice via fair trials with its guarantees and principles, which must be adhered to by everyone, especially the judicial and executive authorities.

On 3 March 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances regarding the situation of Omar Maher Abdel Zaher EL DESOUKY, an Egyptian engineer who was arrested without a judicial warrant by security forces at Cairo airport on 20 December 2021 while on his way to Sweden.

On February 16^th, 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the case of the former governor of Qalyubia, who was arrested on September 17^th, 2013 by the police and has been held in solitary confinement since then.