• The Case
    • About Ola and Hosam
    • Political Affiliations
    • Due Process and Human Rights Violations
    • Detainment Renewals
    • Prison Conditions
    • Medical Conditions
    • INTERPOL Cancels Red Notices against Dr. Youssef Al Qaradawi and Deletes all Files and Data
  • Campaign Statements
  • Human Rights Reports
  • Support
  • Media
  • How You Can Help
Free Ola and Hosam
Free Ola and Hosam
  • The Case
    • About Ola and Hosam
    • Political Affiliations
    • Due Process and Human Rights Violations
    • Detainment Renewals
    • Prison Conditions
    • Medical Conditions
    • INTERPOL Cancels Red Notices against Dr. Youssef Al Qaradawi and Deletes all Files and Data
  • Campaign Statements
    Ola al-Qaradawi Released, Hosam Remains Detained

    Ola al-Qaradawi Released, Hosam Remains Detained

    Campaign Update: Ola Al-Qaradawi Renewed For 15 Days

    Campaign Update: Ola Al-Qaradawi Renewed For 15 Days

    Campaign Update: Ola taken to court a day early for the pre-trial detention hearing of her new case Prosecutor extended her detention for 15 days

    Campaign Update: Ola taken to court a day early for the pre-trial detention hearing of her new case Prosecutor extended her detention for 15 days

    Campaign Update: Ola Al-Qaradawi Charged In a New Case, Sent Back into Solitary Confinement and Has Started an Open Hunger Strike

    Campaign Update: Ola Al-Qaradawi Charged In a New Case, Sent Back into Solitary Confinement and Has Started an Open Hunger Strike

    Campaign Update: Ola Given a Conditional Release and Hosam’s Hearing Delayed

    Campaign Update: Ola Given a Conditional Release and Hosam’s Hearing Delayed

  • Human Rights Reports
    Egypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families

    Egypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families

    Amnesty: URGENT ACTION UPDATE: ARBITRARILY DETAINED COUPLE REMAINS HELD

    Amnesty: URGENT ACTION UPDATE: ARBITRARILY DETAINED COUPLE REMAINS HELD

    HRW: Renewed Detention of Scholar’s Daughter Unlawful

    HRW: Renewed Detention of Scholar’s Daughter Unlawful

    AOHR UK: The Egyptian authorities’ refusal to release Ola Al-Qaradawi, and renewing her imprisonment on a new case, is malicious.

    AOHR UK: The Egyptian authorities’ refusal to release Ola Al-Qaradawi, and renewing her imprisonment on a new case, is malicious.

    Amnesty Releases an Urgent Action for Ola al-Qaradawi's Hunger Strike

    Amnesty Releases an Urgent Action for Ola al-Qaradawi's Hunger Strike

  • Support
    40 Members of Congress signed a letter to Secretary Pompeo specifically mentioning Ola and Hosam

    40 Members of Congress signed a letter to Secretary Pompeo specifically mentioning Ola and Hosam

    US State Department Express Concern about the Conditions of Ola al Qaradawi & Hosam Khalaf

    US State Department Express Concern about the Conditions of Ola al Qaradawi & Hosam Khalaf

    Amnesty: URGENT ACTION UPDATE: ARBITRARILY DETAINED COUPLE REMAINS HELD

    Amnesty: URGENT ACTION UPDATE: ARBITRARILY DETAINED COUPLE REMAINS HELD

    The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

    The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

    POMED: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

    POMED: The Working Group on Egypt’s Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo

  • Media
    Citizen Truth: Amnesty International Condemns Egypt’s System of Perpetual Imprisonment

    Citizen Truth: Amnesty International Condemns Egypt’s System of Perpetual Imprisonment

    AlJazeera: Daughter of Islamic scholar al-Qaradawi remanded in Egypt again

    AlJazeera: Daughter of Islamic scholar al-Qaradawi remanded in Egypt again

    MEMO: Egypt returns Ola Al-Qaradawi to solitary confinement

    MEMO: Egypt returns Ola Al-Qaradawi to solitary confinement

    HAKESH: Ola al Qaradawi goes on hunger strike after being arrested

    HAKESH: Ola al Qaradawi goes on hunger strike after being arrested

    Anadolu Agency: Prominent scholar's daughter remanded in Egypt again

    Anadolu Agency: Prominent scholar's daughter remanded in Egypt again

  • How You Can Help
    Help Free My Grandparents!

    Help Free My Grandparents!

    Egyptians in America - Joint Letter to Embassy

    Egyptians in America - Joint Letter to Embassy

    Sign The Online Petition to Help Free Ola and Hosam

    Sign The Online Petition to Help Free Ola and Hosam

    Print, Capture and Share !

    Print, Capture and Share !

    Amnesty Urgent Action - Write for Ola and Hosam's Freedom

    Amnesty Urgent Action - Write for Ola and Hosam's Freedom

  • Follow
    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Youtube
Home
Media

Citizen Truth: Amnesty International Condemns Egypt’s System of Perpetual Imprisonment

July 13th, 2019 Web Admin Media 0 comments

July 13, 2019

Read here: https://citizentruth.org/amnesty-international-condemns-egypts-system-of-perpetual-imprisonment/

“The Egyptian authorities are reviving Mubarak-era tactics of repression including prolonged pretrial detention to silence peaceful activists.”

In a recent report Amnesty International (A.I.) condemned Egypt for its practice of re-imprisoning people who have been arbitrarily detained by ignoring court release orders and instead drumming up new fabricated charges.

In the report, A.I. detailed the cases of five individuals detained by Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution (S.S.S.P.). However, the S.S.S.P. did not comply with court orders to release the people, instead charging them in new cases. The new cases are fabricated charges, A.I. maintains, to keep them behind bars indefinitely.

Amnesty International criticized Egyptian government authorities for detaining the prisoners instead of applying court orders to release them and claimed that such actions indicate how decayed Egypt’s justice system has become, as Najia Bonaim, Director of North Africa Campaigns at Amnesty International, said in a statement.

“This is an illegal practice against detainees, who have been already detained on spurious grounds, constitutes a deliberate ploy to prolong the detention within revolving doors of Egypt’s arbitrary detention system,” Bonaim added.

According to the report, the authorities initially subjected each individual to a forced disappearance or were held incommunicado and only later were brought before the S.S.S.P., which ordered their detention for an investigation into charges of being a member of a terrorist organization.

Bonaim further noted that re-imprisoning detainees goes beyond cruelty for both victims and their families, as the authorities immediately sent the detainees back to prison upon their first release.

Amnesty International argued that such a practice harks back to the rule of former President Hosni Mubarak, when state security services used to re-detain detainees under the Emergency Law. Egypt’s Emergency Law allows people to be administratively detained indefinitely without charges or trial.

Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court created an article in the Emergency Law allowing such detention. The Supreme Constitutional Court struck down the article that allowed administrative detention under the Emergency Law in June 2013.

“The Egyptian authorities are reviving Mubarak-era tactics of repression including prolonged pretrial detention to silence peaceful activists, journalists and punish people for their political affiliations by detaining them indefinitely as part of their bid to crush dissent under the guise of combating ‘terrorism,’” said Najia Bounaim.

Amnesty’s report cited the cases of Ola al-Qaradawi, daughter of the Egyptian cleric, Youssef al-Qaradawi, who was re-detained on July 4, 2019, and that of the Aljazeera producer, Mahmoud Hussein, who has been arbitrarily detained since Dec. 23, 2016, in connection with his journalistic work.

The S.S.S.P. charged Hussein with being a member of a terrorist organization, receiving foreign funding and publishing false information in a hearing without a lawyer and ordered his pretrial detention, pending further investigation. Hussein was questioned only upon his arrest, which has lasted two and a half years.

A judge finally ordered Hussein’s release May 21, 2019, but on May 28, 2019, the S.S.S.P. decided instead to charge him with membership of a banned organization, receiving foreign funding and working for international organizations for a second time. Hussein has already surpassed the two-year maximum term for pretrial detention under Egyptian law.

“Pending their release, the authorities should ensure that they are detained in lawful conditions including being released from solitary confinement and granted access to their family, lawyers and any necessary medical care,” Najia Bonaim said.

In the meantime, the Egyptian parliament agreed this week to extend the Emergency Law for one more period of three months. The law was last enforced in April  2017, in light of terrorist attacks in northern Egypt against Christian churches.

In 2013, Egypt’s military deposed the late Islamist President, Mohammad Morsi, who was the first democratically elected president of Egypt, following the three-decade-long regime of former President Hosni Mubarak. Morsi belonged to the Islamic Brotherhood group, which has been outlawed since then.

Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest WhatsApp
Next article Campaign Update: Ola taken to court a day early for the pre-trial detention hearing of her new case Prosecutor extended her detention for 15 days
Previous article Amnesty: URGENT ACTION UPDATE: ARBITRARILY DETAINED COUPLE REMAINS HELD

Web Admin

Related Posts

AlJazeera: Daughter of Islamic scholar al-Qaradawi remanded in Egypt again Media
July 9th, 2019

AlJazeera: Daughter of Islamic scholar al-Qaradawi remanded in Egypt again

MEMO: Egypt returns Ola Al-Qaradawi to solitary confinement Media
July 5th, 2019

MEMO: Egypt returns Ola Al-Qaradawi to solitary confinement

HAKESH: Ola al Qaradawi goes on hunger strike after being arrested Media
July 4th, 2019

HAKESH: Ola al Qaradawi goes on hunger strike after being arrested

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Ordeal Timeline
Dec 31st 8:15 PM
Campaign Statements

Ola al-Qaradawi Released, Hosam Remains Detained

Aug 7th 2:41 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola Al-Qaradawi Renewed For 15 Days

Jul 15th 8:02 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola taken to court a day early for the pre-trial detention hearing of her new case Prosecutor extended her detention for 15 days

Jul 4th 4:13 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola Al-Qaradawi Charged In a New Case, Sent Back into Solitary Confinement and Has Started an Open Hunger Strike

Jul 3rd 1:56 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola Given a Conditional Release and Hosam’s Hearing Delayed

Jun 19th 5:52 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola and Hosam Retrial postponed until July 3 2019 due to African Cup of Nations

Jun 12th 9:44 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola and Hosam brought to court today but then postponed until June 18th

May 14th 7:13 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Hosam Khalaf’s Mother Passes Away While he is Detained in Prison

Apr 19th 7:27 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola and Hosam Renewed in the Midst of Recent Releases

Mar 17th 8:22 PM
Campaign Statements

Campaign Update: Ola and Hosam are Included in the US State Department’s 2018 Human Rights Report

  • The Case
  • Campaign Statements
  • Human Rights Reports
  • Support
  • Media
  • How You Can Help
  • Back to top