Egypt Watch

Three detainees put on new case days after their release

The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms said that three people who had been released from prison have been put on a new case. The State Security Prosecution released Mohamed Ramadan Awad al-Sayed, Abdurrahman al-Sayed Abdel Hamid and Sabri Mari Fahmi after they were arrested last September within the wave of detentions launched by the regime after the anti-regime demonstrations inspired by Mohammed Ali.

The Egyptian Commission said they were put on a new case, No. 8557 of 2019, for joining a terrorist group and publishing false news, the same accusations as the first case. Recently blogger Shady Abu Zeid was added to a new, almost identical case, after being released two years after he was imprisoned and charged with publishing false news and joining a banned group.