Ezzat Ghoneim
Detention Victim- Date updated
- Jan 24, 2022
- Gender
- Male
- Age group
- 36-60
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession
- Lawyer and Executive Director of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms
- Profession Category
- Human Rights defender
- Background of detention
- Pretrial detention
- Violations
- Arbitrary placement on terrorism list
- Arbitrary pretrial detention
- Deprivation of liberty
- Enforced disappearance
- Exceptional "Emergency State Security " trial
- Poor detention conditions
- Recycling
- Repeated detention
- Methods of torture
- Others
- Psychological torture
- Place of detention
Latitude: 30.033575632665507
Longitude: 31.052640946921258
- Place of detention (linked Detention Victim)
- Giza central prison
- Date of Arrest
- Sep 15, 2018
- Place of Arrest
- Al-Harm Circular Road
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- police
- state security
- Was S/he trialed?
- No
- Summary
On 1 March 2018, at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Ghonim was arrested from his uber at the Al-Harm Circular Road and driven to unknown place. On 4 March 2018, he was accused before the State Security Prosecution under Case no. 441/2018. On the 4th of September 2018, the court decided to release Mr. Ezzat Ghoneim with precautionary measures. Then, he was underwent enforced disappearance for five months and on 9 February 2019 Cairo Criminal Court issued a decision to jail for 45 days pending the same case for allegedly evading the presence of precautionary measures. On 7 May 2019, Mr. Ezzat was granted a release from Case No. 441/2018 but he was charged in a new Case No. 1118/2019 over joining a terrorist group.
- Image
- Data status
- Documented