Mohamed El-Baqer
Detention Watch Victim- Date updated
- Jan 24, 2022
- Gender
- Male
- Age group
- 18-35
- Nationality
- Egyptian
- Profession
- Human Rights Lawyer
- Profession Category
- Human Rights defender
- Background of detention
- Pretrial detention
- Violations
- Arbitrary detention
- Poor detention conditions
- Recycling
- Repeated detention
- Methods of torture
- Psychological torture
- Place of detention
Latitude: 29.937790194325387
Longitude: 31.277796684618416
- Place of detention (linked Detention place)
- Area of Tora prisons
- Date of Arrest
- Sep 29, 2019
- Place of Arrest
- From premises of Supreme State Security Prosecution, 5th settlement, Cairo governorate while he was representing his client, the human rights activist and Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah at the investigation.
- Identity of forces carrying out the arrest
- police
- state security
- Was S/he trialed?
- Yes
- Cases Numbers
- Summary
On 29 September 2019, Mr. El-Baqer was in the premises of Supreme State Security Prosecution, 5th settlement, Cairo governorate to represent his client, the human rights activist and Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah at the investigation. This is when the Prosecution informed him that an arrest warrant has been issued against him under case No. 1356 of the year 2019 - Supreme State Security Prosecution - which is the same case under which his client is accused. Since then, he has been on renewed detention. In August 31 2020, Mr. El-Baqer knew that he was assigned to a new case number 855 of the year 2020, accused of the same old charges. In December 2021, the State Security Misdemeanor Court sentenced him to 4 years in prison
- Link to UN intervention
- HRC. 45
