Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy

Detention Victim
Date updated
Mar 25, 2024
Gender
Male
Age group
36-60
Nationality
Egyptian
Profession
Lawyer and founder of the Association of the Families of the Forcibly Disappeared
Profession Category
Human Rights defender
Background of detention
  • Pretrial detention
Violations
  • Arbitrary pretrial detention
  • Deprivation of liberty
  • Exceptional "Emergency State Security " trial
  • Recycling
Place of detention

Latitude: 29.937790194325387

Longitude: 31.277796684618416

Place of detention (linked Detention Victim)
Area of Tora prisons
Badr new prison
Date of Arrest
Sep 10, 2017
Place of Arrest
From the Cairo Airport while in route to Geneva, Switzerland
Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
  • police
  • state security
Was S/he trialed?
Yes
Summary

He was arrested on 10 September 2017 from Cairo Airport before traveling to Geneva, Switzerland on a visit to the United Nations. After two years in pretrial detention, on October 14, 2019, the Criminal Court acquitted Ibrahim Metwally of the charges against him and ordered his release. On November 5, 2019, he was charged in a new case on charges similar to the charges in the first case. Recently, on August 26, 2020, the court ruled his innocence, but he was charged in a new case on September 6, 2020. Among the cases in which he was charged are Case No. 786 of 2020 State Security, and No. 1470 of 2019 State Security.

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