Mr. Abdel Fattah is reportedly regularly insulted and threatened by prison authorities in his cell. Mr. El-Baqer has reportedly been denied access to clean drinking water and a shower. He is kept in his cell during recreation time and is given food that falls far below the quality of meals served to other prisoners. He has been forced to sleep on the floor as a result of which he has suffered from severe back pain. Prison authorities have refused to provide him with medical assistance. Ms. Esraa Abdel Fattah On the evening of 12 October 2019, Ms. Abdel Fattah was driving her car when two unidentified vehicles started chasing her. She was forcibly stopped in the middle of the road, taken out of her car and put into one of the unidentified vehicles by security agents in plain clothes. She was detained in an unknown location for 24 hours, during which she was reportedly blindfolded, handcuffed and severely beaten. She was forced to stand facing a wall for seven hours. She was physically assaulted and threatened with electric shocks as she refused to give up the password to her phone. She was later taken to another unknown building where her jacket was used to stifle and hung her in order to force her to unlock her phone. The security agents then unlocked Ms. Abdel Fattah’s phone using her fingers, and searched through her contacts. She was denied medical assistance. Ms. Abdel Fattah’s whereabouts remained unknown until the next day, when she was taken to the Supreme Public Prosecution. The Prosecutor ordered her preventive detention for 15 days. She has been charged with “collaborating with a terrorist organisation to achieve its goals”, “defamation and the spread of false news” and “misuse of social media” in the Criminal Case 488 of 2019. On the same day, Ms. Abdel Fattah started a hunger strike. After her legal counsel requested a forensic examination of the injuries sustained during her detention Ms. Abdel Fattah was threatened with further abuses by security agents if she spoke about the treatment she had been subjected to. On 14 October 2019, Ms. Abdel Fattah was transferred from a local police station in Cairo to Al-Qanateer women’s prison. We wish to express serious concern at the conviction and imprisonment of Mr. Abdel Fattah, following a trial that seemingly failed to respect due process guarantees. Concern is also expressed at the recent arrest, continued detention and charges brought against Mr. Abdel Fattah, Mr. El-Baqer and Ms. Abdel Fattah, which appear to be directly linked to their peaceful human rights activities. We raise specific concern that the alleged human rights violations against Mr. El-Baqer may represent acts 5