April 6th, 2018279Original Link: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2018/04/family-couple-detained-egypt-call-intervene-180406165734692.html#
Lawyer says Ola al-Qaradawi and husband Hosam Khalaf are 'being held hostage' amid Egypt-Qatar political rift.
Aayah Khalaf, 31, has not had any contact with her parents in more than nine...
April 6th, 2018730
Hi, my name is Jana. I am 9 years old. I live in Seattle and I am in 4th grade.
Last year my grandmother and grandfather were in Egypt and they were packing their bags to come live with us. Before they could come the Egyptian government took them one night for no reason. Until today we don’t know why. There are a lot of people...
April 3rd, 2018155Today Hosam was transferred to the courthouse for his detention extension hearing. He was placed in a glass cage. His lawyer argued that Hosam and Ola’s pretrial detention is in violation of due process and that the judge has already approved two previous 45 day renewals without any evidence presented by the prosecution. Nothing new...
April 2nd, 2018199Yesterday Ola Al-Qaradawi was transferred from Qanatir Women’s Prison to a courthouse for her detention extension hearing. She was placed in a glass cage once again where she could only observe the court proceedings but was barred from speaking. State Security officials blocked her lawyers from speaking with her. In previous renewals...
March 23rd, 201898Original Link: https://medium.com/@freeolahosam/president-trump-stand-up-to-egypts-sisi-for-imprisoned-americans-and-so-many-others-fb88bbe2ae8f
Nine months ago, my parents took a vacation trip to Northern Egypt. They’d barely spent a day with their newborn granddaughter before being arrested without warrant by Egyptian security...
March 13th, 2018209Original Link: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egyptian-americans-march-washington-advocate-political-prisoners-1871626494
WASHINGTON, DC - “Sometimes I utter meaningless words just to remind myself that I am alive, and I can still speak.”
Those words were among the last Mohamed Soltan wrote in his journal as a political...
March 1st, 2018122Original Link: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ola-al-qaradawi-remains-windowless-cell-egypt-regional-powers-feud-2014539261
Ola al-Qaradawi and her husband Hosam Khalaf have been detained for eight months with no official charges
For more than 240 days, an unsuspecting Egyptian family has found itself at the crossroad of a major...
February 23rd, 2018250Statement Issued By Jared Genser (Perseus Strategies)
On Tuesday, February 20, 2018, U.S. legal permanent residents Ola al-Qaradawi and Hosam Khalaf had their detentions renewed by an Egyptian judge for an additional 45 days. Their children and grandchildren in the U.S. are incredibly concerned for their health, as this renewal...
February 20th, 2018159Ola Al-Qaradawi and Hosam Khalaf have remained in arbitrary detention for 234 days since their arrest on June 30th 2017 in solitary confinement. Ola and Hosam’s family and friends remain extremely concerned for their mental and physical wellbeing. Family and lawyers continue to be denied visits and communication with them and no one...