The victim is 30 years old and works as a surveying engineer. He was arrested in 2021 and interrogated before the Supreme State Security Prosecution pending Case No. 2174 of 2021 on charges of spreading false news through social media.

The victim's family says that he has no political affiliations, and that the family suffers from periodic transfers to Cairo in order to visit and fulfill the victim's needs. The victim also suffers from medical neglect, as he needs urgent surgery to perform a fistula operation.