A/HRC/WGAD/2022/ Advance unedited version Distr.: General 12 September 2022 Original: English Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention at its ninety-third session, 30 March- 8 April 2022 Opinion No. 34/2022 concerning Messrs. Omar Abdel Aziz Mohammed Abdel Aziz, Khaled Mohamed Abdel Raouf Sahloob, Hossam Abdel Razek Abdel Salam Khalil and Mohammed Abdel Aziz Farag Ali (Egypt) 1. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established in resolution 1991/42 of the Commission on Human Rights. In its resolution 1997/50, the Commission extended and clarified the mandate of the Working Group. Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 60/251 and Human Rights Council decision 1/102, the Council assumed the mandate of the Commission. The Council most recently extended the mandate of the Working Group for a three-year period in its resolution 42/22. 2. In accordance with its methods of work, 1 on 5 November 2021 the Working Group transmitted to the Government of Egypt a communication concerning Messrs. Omar Abdel Aziz Mohammed Abdel Aziz, Khaled Mohamed Abdel Raouf Sahloob, Hossam Abdel Razek Abdel Salam Khalil and Mohammed Abdel Aziz Farag Ali. The Government has not replied to the communication. The State is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 3. The Working Group regards deprivation of liberty as arbitrary in the following cases: (a) When it is clearly impossible to invoke any legal basis justifying the deprivation of liberty (as when a person is kept in detention after the completion of his or her sentence or despite an amnesty law applicable to him or her) (category I); (b) When the deprivation of liberty results from the exercise of the rights or freedoms guaranteed by articles 7, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, insofar as States parties are concerned, by articles 12, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 of the Covenant (category II); (c) When the total or partial non-observance of the international norms relating to the right to a fair trial, established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned, is of such gravity as to give the deprivation of liberty an arbitrary character (category III); (d) When asylum seekers, immigrants or refugees are subjected to prolonged administrative custody without the possibility of administrative or judicial review or remedy (category IV); (e) When the deprivation of liberty constitutes a violation of international law on the grounds of discrimination based on birth, national, ethnic or social origin, language, 1 A/HRC/36/38.