Ahmed Samir Santawy
Detention Victim- Date updated
- Jul 29, 2022
- Gender
- Male
- Age group
- 18-35
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession
- Researcher
- Profession Category
- Human Rights defender
- Background of detention
- Released
- Violations
- Deprivation of liberty
- Enforced disappearance
- Exceptional "Emergency State Security " trial
- Torture
- Methods of torture
- Beaten Without legal Cause
- Psychological torture
- Place of detention
Latitude: 29.937790194325387
Longitude: 31.277796684618416
- Place of detention (linked Detention Victim)
- Area of Tora prisons
- Date of Arrest
- Feb 1, 2021
- Place of Arrest
- from Fifth Settlement Police Station
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- state security
- Was S/he trialed?
- Yes
- Summary
On February 1, 2021, Ahmed was arrested from the Fifth Settlement Police Department, where he was summoned for interrogation and forcibly disappeared for 5 days until he appeared pending Case No. 65 of 2021 on charges of joining a terrorist group, spreading false news and misusing social media. He is also accused pending Case No. 744 of 2021 Emergency State Security Misdemeanor First Settlement. He was sentenced on June 22, 2021 to 4 years in prison and a fine of 500 Egyptian pounds. He received a republican pardon in July 2022 and was released. It is reported that he is not allowed to travel from the country until now.
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- Data status
- Documented
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