The victim is a first-year student in the Faculty of Engineering - Canadian University. He was arrested, according to eyewitnesses, on February 13, 2018, at exactly seven in the evening, when National Security forces stormed his residence in Cairo, searched his apartment, took his laptop and mobile phone, and took him to an unknown location. .

The victim was subjected to enforced disappearance along with his brother, who was arrested on the same day, and they have not been brought before any investigating authority yet.