Issued decisions
– Cairo Criminal (Terrorism) Court’s 5th circuit sentenced human rights activist Bahy al-Din Hassan, director of Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), to 15 years in high-security prison on charges of spreading false news, inciting against the state and insulting the judiciary.
– Cairo Criminal (Terrorism) Court’s 5th circuit sentenced 8 defendants to 10 years in high-security prison in their retrial over the case publicly known as “Helwan’s Martyrs Square incidents”.
– Giza Criminal Court adjourned, today (Tuesday), the trial of 6 defendants accused of sexually assaulting “Tik Tok” girl Menna Abdel-Aziz for the first of September, 2020 hearing until the defense check the case’s documents.
– Cairo Criminal (Terrorism) Court’s 1st circuit adjourned the retrial of 12 defendants in the case known in the media as “the cabinet incidents” for the hearing of 8 September, 2020 to proceed with the pleading.
– Cairo Criminal Court has upheld the Public Prosecutor’s decision to freeze the assets of Tik Tok female influencers Haneen Hossam, Mawada El-Adham and others.
– Giza Criminal Court has adjourned the trial of 11 defendants in the case known in the media as “Great Wheat Corruption” for the hearing of 27 September 2020 to continue the defense’s pleading.
– Cairo Criminal Court’s 1st circuit decided to adjourn the trial of 215 defendants in the case known in the media as “Helwan Brigades” for the hearing of 15 September, 2020 to plead the case.
Decisions not issued
– Cairo Criminal (Terrorism) Court’s 1st circuit is considering the detention renewal of human rights lawyer Amr Imam, journalist Solafa Magdy and his husband photojournalist Hossam Al-Sayyad, journalists Mohamed Salah, Ahmed Shaker, engineer Hassan Abdel-Hamid, student Mohamed Fady and Sameh Magdy pending Case No. 488 of 2019 State Security, but hasn’t reached a decision so far.
– Cairo Criminal (Terrorism) Court’s 1st circuit is considering the detention renewal of journalist Badr Badr Mohamed pending Case No. 1360 of 2019 State Security, but hasn’t reached a decision so far.
– Cairo Criminal (Terrorism) Court’s 1st circuit is considering the detention renewal of student Khalil Abdel-Hamid pending Case No. 1358 of 2019 but hasn’t reached a decision so far.
– Cairo Criminal (Terrorism) Court’s 1st circuit is considering the detention renewal of students Belal and Omar Mohamed Abdel-Zaher pending Case No. 1530 of 2019 but hasn’t reached a decision so far.