London – January 21, 2018
The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided Sunday to continue jailing 10 journalists for 15 days, including Ahmed Abdul-Aziz and Ahmad Abu-Zeid Al-Tanoubi, the journalist and researcher in the Arab Media Freedom Monitor “Ikshef”, in case no. 977 of 2017.
Extending their remand was attended by head of Ikshef’s legal unit. In addition to Al-Tanobi and Abdul-Aziz, the jailed journalists included Nesreen Antar Abdul-Latif, Fatema Mohammed Afifi Mohammed, Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Mostafa, Ahmed Magdi Abdul-Hamid, Ahmed Mohammed Mostafa, Mahmoud Mabrouk Abdul-Razek and Ahmed Khaled Mohammed in the same case.
The hearing of journalist Abdul-Aziz also witnessed the presence of the lawyer of Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate “EJS”, who asked to hear the testimony of Amr Badr and Mohammed Saad Abdul-Hafiz members of EJS board as witnesses for the defence, but he did not provide such accounts from EJS.
Ikshef’s lawyer had asked for the presence of the same witnesses in previous sessions.
Similarly, the prosecution extended remand of journalist Mohammed Al-Husseini for 15 days in case no. 915 of 2017 on charges related to practicing journalistic work.
