UA 322/1325 Egypt: ACTIVISTS ON TRIAL, THREE RELEASED ON BAIL
Leading activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, and activists Mohamed Abdel Rahman and Wael Mohamed Metwally
were released on bail in the evening of 15 September 2014. Lawyers told
Amnesty International that the court ordered the release of the three
men on bail of 5,000 EGP (US$700.00). Lawyers added that the court did
not have valid reason to keep the three men jailed. The other 22
defendants are out of prison and they are all facing the same charges.
By
the end of the court session, the court panel recused itself as that
very same panel had already sentenced the 25 defendants, in their
absence, to 15 years in prison in June. The case is now referred to the
Court of Appeal which will assign it to another criminal court.
All
25 defendants are charged for participating in an unauthorized protest
outside the Shura Council in November 2013 and a range of trumped-up
charges, including “assaulting the security forces”, “stealing a police
radio”, “cutting off access to roads” and “interrupting the work of
national institutions”.
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