Seif El-Din Khaled Salah El-Din Fateen
Detention Victim- Date updated
- Jan 31, 2023
- Gender
- Male
- Age group
- 36-60
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession
- the director of the environmental engineering program at Zewail University, a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cairo University and American University in Cairo, and a former adviser to the Minister of Higher Education
- Profession Category
- Professor
- Background of detention
- Pretrial detention
- Violations
- Arbitrary pretrial detention
- Denial of Medical Care
- Deprivation of liberty
- Enforced disappearance
- Poor detention conditions
- Torture
- Methods of torture
- Beaten Without legal Cause
- Electricity
- Psychological torture
- Place of detention
Latitude: 30.194184677352663
Longitude: 31.117716646572266
- Place of detention (linked Detention Victim)
- Area of Al qanatir Al khayriya prison
- Date of Arrest
- Nov 14, 2018
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- police
- state security
- Was S/he trialed?
- No
- Summary
The victim was arrested from his home on 11-14-2018 on the 6th of October at 1 am by a security force consisting of an officer, 6 recruits in black uniforms, masked, and 2 police secretaries. They stormed the house and seized 5 laptops, 1 camera and the victim’s personal mobile phone and took him To the National Security headquarters in Sheikh Zayed, where he was forcibly disappeared from 14-11-2018 until 5-8-2019, During the period of his disappearance, he was subjected to psychological and physical torture, according to his narration, that he was blindfolded throughout the period of concealment, and that he was handcuffed, and he was treated as a number and his name was not called. He was also suffering from intransigence at the time of prayer, and he was threatened with stripping him of his clothes and hanging him on one of the doors while he was handcuffed. Behind, the victim was also subjected to physical torture, as he was electrocuted with his left arm and sensitive areas of his body.The victim was a former advisor to the Minister of Higher Education, and he appeared at the Supreme State Security Prosecution on 5-8-2019 and was imprisoned pending Case No. 930 of 2019, the Supreme State Security, known in the media as the Hope Cell. The period of his imprisonment lasted until the month of 12-2019, after which he was transferred to Al-Qanater Prison for Men - his current place of detention. Painkillers, In the year 2020, he was allergic to the chest due to poor ventilation, and the victim was dismissed from his work at Cairo University, and his salary was suspended, and he was also dismissed from Zewail University due to absence, in the event that the family had informed the university president of his arrest, and the family filed a lawsuit against Cairo University to obtain the victim’s salary However, it has not been decided in court yet, and the family has no other source of income.
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- Data status
- Documented