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NGOs urge Egyptian Authorities to Release Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy
We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been arbitrarily detained since 1 February 2021 on bogus terrorism-related charges. The undersigned organizations further call on the authorities to ensure prompt, independent, impartial, transparent, and effective investigations into Ahmed Samir Santawy’s allegations of being subjected to enforced disappearance and ill-treatment by security forces following his arrest.
The undersigned organizations consider that Ahmed Samir Santawy, a researcher and master’s student of anthropology at the Vienna-based Central European University (CEU), is arbitrarily detained solely because of his academic work focusing on women s rights, including the history of reproductive rights in Egypt.
Egypt releases two journalists after international outcry
Solafa Magdy and her husband Hossam el-Sayyad had been held in pre-trial detention for 16 months over their journalism work
Solafa Magdy (L) and Hossam el-Sayyad (R) were released on Wednesday (Facebook) By Published date: 14 April 2021 13:38 UTC | Last update: 5 sec ago
Egyptian authorities released journalists Solafa Magdy and her husband Hossam el-Sayyad on Wednesday after more than a year in pre-trial detention, which rights groups have condemned as an attack on free speech.
Magdy and Sayyad had been in custody for more than 16 months on charges of “spreading false news” and “joining a terrorist group”, as part of case No 488 of the year 2019, which is linked to the crackdown on the rare anti-government protests of March that year.
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Beirut: Amnesty International on Thursday denounced shocking crimes it said were committed against a couple and their toddler in Egypt, including their almost two-year enforced.
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Egyptian authorities must conduct prompt, effective and independent investigations into the enforced disappearance for almost two years of a young mother, and her toddler, as well as the ongoing enforced disappearance of her husband, the child’s father, said Amnesty International today.
The organization also urges the authorities to immediately release the mother from abusive pre-trial detention and ensure the family’s right to adequate remedy and reparation proportional to the severity of violations and harm suffered. The Egyptian authorities have a long, grim record of forcibly disappearing and torturing people they consider government opponents or critics. However, seizing a young mother with her one-year-old baby and confining them in a room for 23 months outside the protection of the law and with no contact with the outside world show that their ongoing campaign to stamp out dissent and instil fear has reached a new level of brutality,” said Phi