Samia Habib Muhammad Shanan
Detention Victim- Date updated
- Aug 8, 2023
- Gender
- Female
- Age group
- More than 60
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession
- Fruit seller
- Profession Category
- Other professions
- Background of detention
- Serving a sentence
- Violations
- Arbitrary pretrial detention
- Denial of Medical Care
- Deprivation of liberty
- Enforced disappearance
- Poor detention conditions
- Torture
- Methods of torture
- Beaten Without legal Cause
- Others
- Psychological torture
- Place of detention
Latitude: 30.35322311697255
Longitude: 31.60165355685826
- Place of detention (linked Detention Victim)
- Aasher Men Ramadan prison for women
- Date of Arrest
- Sep 19, 2013
- Place of Arrest
- Giza
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- police
- Was S/he trialed?
- Yes
- Cases Numbers
- Summary
The victim was arrested on September 19, 2013 from her home in the “Kerdasa area” following a massive campaign launched by the Egyptian security forces following the “August events 2013” known as the “Kerdasa massacre”, which was the storming of the Kerdasa police station, and the killing of a number of officers and policemen and two From the parents.
She was included in case No. 12749 of 2013, the Kerdasa felonies, which is registered under No. 4804 of 2013 in North Giza College, known in the media as the “Kerdasa massacre” case.
The victim was accused of participating in a gathering in front of the Kerdasa police station, possessing weapons and ammunition, and killing approximately 11 members of the police forces, including the station warden, his deputy, and two other residents who happened to be there, and attempting to kill 30 other members of the police station force, and abusing the body of the deputy warden of the station. Kerdasa Amer Abdel Maqsoud watered him with fire water on August 14, 2013, and the Egyptian judiciary denied the occurrence of this incident from the ground up.
On February 2, 2015, the Giza Criminal Court, headed by Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata, and the membership of counselors Yasser Yassin and Abdel-Rahman Safwat, issued a death sentence against her along with others. In July 2017, the Cairo Criminal Court, headed by Judge Mohamed Sherine Fahmy, reduced the sentence for nearly 80 defendants, including the victim to life imprisonment instead of execution.
The victim is currently serving her sentence in the New Tenth of Ramadan Prison for Women, after she was transferred to it from Qanater Prison.
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- Data status
- Monitored