– Cairo Criminal Court decided, yesterday evening, to renew the detention of photojournalist Shorouk Amgad for 45 days pending case No. 441 of 2018 State Security.

– The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided, yesterday evening, to renew the detention of Mohamed Fady Ahmed for 15 days pending case No. 488 of 2019 State Security.

– The Court of Cassation accepted the appeal submitted by 28 defendants against the sentences handed down to them in the case publicly known as “the murder of journalist Mayada Ashraf”, and accordingly changed the sentences from imprisonment with force and labor to merely imprisonment with the same prison term duration.

Decisions not issued until 5 pm:

– The Supreme State Security Prosecution is considering the detention renewal of Gamal Abdel Fattah, Mohab El-Ebrashi, Khaled Mahmoud and Khaled Bassiouni pending case No. 1739 of 2018 State Security, and hasn’t reached a decision so far.

– The Supreme State Security Prosecution is considering the detention renewal of Engineer Yehia Hussein Abdel-Hady pending case No. 277 of 2019 State Security, and hasn’t reached a decision so far.