The victim is a political activist. He was arrested from his private library in the city of Alexandria on December 11, 2019, after which he disappeared and there was no news of him for 14 days, during which he remained under enforced disappearance. Then, on December 25, 2019, he appeared at the Supreme State Security Prosecution in the Fifth Settlement, and he was interrogated on In connection with Case 1898 of 2019 State Security on charges of promoting the ideas of a terrorist group, spreading false rumors, and misusing social media, and he entered a hunger strike during his imprisonment in Tora Prison to demand his release before he was transferred to Badr Prison, and on January 16 and after Intervention of the Presidential Pardon Committee, he was released pending the case.