Ibrahim Attia
Detention Victim- Date updated
- Dec 30, 2024
- Gender
- Male
- Age group
- 36-60
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession
- lawyer
- Profession Category
- Human Rights defender
- Background of detention
- Released
- Violations
- Arbitrary pretrial detention
- Denial of Medical Care
- Deprivation of liberty
- Poor detention conditions
- Repeated detention
- Place of detention
Latitude: 31.035906063843704
Longitude: 30.471099757271425
- Place of detention (linked Detention Victim)
- Security forces camp at Damanhour
- Date of Arrest
- Feb 19, 2015
- Place of Arrest
- Beheira
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- police
- Was S/he trialed?
- No
- Summary
The victim, a lawyer with a "cassation" rank, a member of the General Assembly of the Egyptian Lawyers, a member of the Freedoms Committee of the Beheira Bar Association, and the head of the Defense Committee for Detainees of Opinion and Politicians in the city of Damanhour in Beheira Governorate, and one of the most prominent human rights defenders in Lower Egypt.
The regime did not leave the victim without pursuing or harassing him, so he was arrested several times, and each time he was pursued while leaving the court or from a prosecution investigation while performing his professional duty, so the punishment was detention, arbitrary arrest, and referral to the prosecution on charges of joining a banned group and promoting its ideas, and these charges continued to pursue him in every new case for which he was imprisoned.
The last time he was arrested, on February 19, 2015, in the case known in the media as the "Presidential Elections Incidents", No. 625 of 2014, Central Damanhour General Felonies, the victim's life was nearing its end after almost complete liver failure, and his health condition deteriorated during his detention in Damanhour Security Forces Prison, and he was denied medication and food for this medical condition, and he was refused a medical examination.
The victim died, after a long struggle with illness, and his pretrial detention and medical negligence contributed to its exacerbation, on May 6, 2015.
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