The victim was arrested on August 22, 2023, from his home in Giza. He was interrogated the next day before the Supreme State Security Prosecution pending Case No. 2064 of 2023 on charges of misusing communication means, spreading false news, and joining a banned group. He was transferred to the Tenth Prison. Ramadan.

The victim is the father of the political activist and journalist Ahmed Jamal Ziyadah, who was previously imprisoned pending opinion cases before, and the activist confirmed that his father runs a clothing workshop, and his Facebook page only publishes everything related to this workshop as a kind of promotion of his work, and his page is private and not He publishes general news, and the prosecution reviewed his Facebook account, and the lawyers proved that the page was free of everything related to politics, before it decided to detain him for 15 days pending investigations.

September 20 update: Journalist Ahmed Ziada’s father left and arrived home after a decision by the Public Prosecution to release him.