Forty-two defendants from Shubra al-Bahou village have been referred to criminal trial in front of the State Security Criminal Court in Mansoura by the Daqahlia Public Prosecution’s office on Tuesday for their involvement in gathering to prevent the burial of doctor Sonia Aref.

The Public Prosecution in Egypt’s Giza Governorate on Tuesday ordered the release of four defendants on LE500 bail, after they were accused of performing the collective Eid al-Fitr prayer in violation of the Egyptian Cabinet’s regulations banning large gatherings and group prayer amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Egyptian authorities have been holding hundreds, and most likely thousands, of people in pretrial detention without a pretense of judicial review in a new low for the country’s justice system, Human Rights Watch said today.

Attalah was released on bail by the Maadi Prosecution shortly following her arrest. She posted bail to the tune of EGP 2,000. 

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced on Friday evening that popular TikTok star Mawada Eladhm had been arrested a day earlier on charges of “violating family principles and values in Egyptian society” and “establishing, managing and using [websites and social media accounts] with the aim of committing those crimes”.

Egyptian rights lawyers and organizations told Al-Monitor about the dire legal violations that the Egyptian authorities are committing by issuing court decisions to extend the pre-trial detention of political prisoners without allowing them to appear before a judge. These organizations have called for the release of all those whose detentions were extended …

The recent death of young video director Shady Habash in an Egyptian prison is “a case of medical negligence”, rights groups and a former political prisoner said following the release of preliminary findings by prosecutors on Tuesday.

Amnesty International has lambasted a spate of mass rulings in Egypt to extend the pre-trial detention of over 1,600 prisoners, which it says violates basic due process guarantees.

An Egyptian filmmaker found dead last week in the country’s notorious Tora prison died after ingesting alcohol intended for use as hand sanitiser, the public prosecution has claimed, seemingly contradicting accounts from fellow prisoners who said guards ignored calls for help.

Egypt’s State Security Prosecution released 15 detained politicians, including writer and professor of political science at Cairo University Hassan Nafaa, political activists Hazem Abdel-Azim and Shady El-Ghazaly Harb on Thursday.