Largest Case Including 65 Media person in Egypt Unveiled

London – November 7, 2016

(Ikshef) –  Egypt’s biggest case of arresting journalists, media workers and activists so far was unveiled. It  includes 65 names among them 8 members of the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate in the case No. 10383 for the year 2016. The charges against journalists are spreading false news that harm national security, inciting demonstrations of November 11, 2016 (what is known as Revolution of the Poor), belonging to an outlawed group and trying to overthrow the government.

Uncovering this case with this large number of defendants has caused a big shock to journalists, after the shock of the ruling of the famous executions for five journalists in May 2016. What makes it stranger is that a number of those named in the case are forcibly disappeared , others detained or abroad. Houses of those who are still in Egypt were raided, but they were not there, among them is Amr Gamal of Mubasher Misr news network and Samah Ibrahim of Freedom and Justice newspaper.

Names of the defendants are as follows:

1. Ahmed Kamal Othman
2. Amr Gamal Hassan
3. Hany Fateh Ahmed Hassan
4. Mostafa Mohamed Mostafa Ibrahim
5. Mahmoud Abdul-Raouf Abdul-Nabi
6. Said Ahmad Mohammad Abbasi
7. Said Mahmoud Al-Sayed Afifi
8. Hesham Seraguddin Ismail
9. Qotb Abdul-Rahman Gad Al-Araby
10. Saber Abdul-Latif Abdul-Maksoud
11. Hossam Wahba Mohamed Morsi
12. Mostafa Saleh Ali Ali
13. Osama Ahmed Abdul-Hakim
14. Yasser Hassan Ahmed
15. Ramadan Gweideh Shehata Wahdan
16. Osama Abdul-Rahim Hussein
17. Samah Ibrahim Ali Darwish
18. Hani Yousef Gaber
19. Ammar Mohammed Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Beltagy
20. Yasser Abdul-Halim Ahmed Abdul-Hafiz
21. Ahmed Said Yusuf
22. Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed El-Sayed
23. Tarek Hassanein Ashour
24. Sohaib Tariq Abdul-Wahab
25. Abdul-Rahman Ahmad Ahmad Genaidi
26. Ahmed Tariq Abdul-Wahab
27. Oyoun Yahya Abdul-Karim
28. Mohamed Haz Mohamed Khalifa
29. Mahmoud Fathi Al-Ebyari
30. Miqdad Ahmed Mohammed Abdul-Badie
31. Islam Al-Shahhat Ragab
32. Alaa Abdul-Alim Abdul-Alim
33. Mostafa Mahmoud Ahmed Gad
34. Mostafa Mahmoud Mostafa
35. Mohamed Mostafa Hamed Salman
36. Sarah Mahmoud Gab-Allah
37. Adel Hamed Sulaiman Al-Haggar
38. Asmaa Alaa Hosni
39. Hussein Mohammed Amin Abul-Leef
40. Mahmoud Sami Eid
41. Ahmed Abdul-Fattah Yusuf
42. Khaled Mamdouh Hassan
43. Abdul-Rahman Sulaiman Matar
44. Shaimaa Abdullah Abd-Rabbo
45. Ahmad Abdul-Gawwad Hamid
46. Amr Mohamed El-Sayed Abdul-Baqi
47. Ahmed Mohamed Fouad Nile
48. Mohamed Farag Ibrahim Hassan
49. Osama Taha Abdul-Hamid
50. Mohamed Ibrahim Abul-Magd
51. Hany Attiya Mohamed Mahmoud
52. Reda Abdullah Abdul-Wadood
53. Yaser Sayed Ahmed Abul-Ela
54. Mohamed Gamal Mohamed Mohamed Arafa
55. Ahmed Al-Bara Abul-Ela
56. Ahmed Mohamed Ela
57. Ahmad Mohamed Mansi
58. Abu-Bakr Mohammad Ali Abul-Magd
59. Waleed Mostafa Gaber
60. Mohamed Attiya Ahmed Attiya
61. Mahmoud Bahieddin Metawea
62. Ahmad Al-Rifai Ahmed Al-Feqi
63. Ibrahim Mamdouh Desuqi
64. Baher Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Rahman
65. Abdul-Rahman Ali Mahmoud Ali Fatehelbab