The victim was arrested after receiving a phone call from the National Security Agency for investigation. He went to the National Security headquarters in Maamoura on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, and has been subjected to enforced disappearance since then.

The victim had previously been arrested by security forces while he was sitting with some of his friends at a café in Alexandria. He was a student in the third year at the Faculty of Law at Alexandria University on January 3, 2014. He was sentenced to imprisonment and periodic surveillance for a period of five years.