Sanaa Seif
Detention Watch Victim- Date updated
- Jan 24, 2022
- Gender
- Female
- Age group
- 18-35
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession
- human right defender and film editor
- Profession Category
- Human Rights defender
- Violations
- Arbitrary detention
- Repeated detention
- Methods of torture
- Psychological torture
- Place of detention
Latitude: 30.194184677352663
Longitude: 31.117716646572266
- Place of detention (linked Detention place)
- Area of Al qanatir Al khayriya prison
- Date of Arrest
- Jun 23, 2020
- Place of Arrest
- at the entrance to the public prosecutor’s office
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- police
- state security
- Was S/he trialed?
- Yes
- Cases Numbers
- Summary
On June 22, 2020, Sanaa Seif, her sister Mona Seif and their mother, human rights defender Laila Soueif, were physically assaulted and robbed by unidentified women in front of Tora prison. On June 23, 2020, the three women went with their lawyer to the Public Prosecutor's office to file a complaint about the accident. Sanaa Seif and her lawyer were stopped at the entrance to the building and asked to show their identity cards. Upon presenting their IDs, Sanaa Seif's lawyer was pushed aside, and she was forced into a pickup truck. Sanaa Seif was transferred to an unknown location and then returned to the Public Prosecution office after about an hour and a half. Then, the State Security Prosecution questioned her and ordered her pre-trial detention for 15 days for spreading false news, inciting terrorist crimes and misusing social media, under Case No. 659 of 2020.The Egyptian Prisons Authority released her after her "sentence" expired on December 23, 2021
- Link to UN intervention
- Link to UN intervention
