Amnesty International
The activists,
Mostafa Ibrahim Mohamed Ahmed, Karim Khaled Fathy, Mohamed Abdel-Hamid, Gamila Seryel-Dain and Ahmed Mohamed Said, had been convicted on 13 December of protesting, while blocking the
road and disrupting traffic, violating Egypt’s 2013 Protest Law. This
law arbitrarily restricts the rights to freedom of expression and
peaceful assembly guaranteed under international human rights law and
Egypt’s Constitution. According to the defence lawyers, there is no
physical evidence proving the charges against the five. The only
evidence is an investigation report by a single National Security
officer, according to which the five had taken part in a protest on 19
November at the intersection of Cairo’s Mohamed Mahmoud and Mohamed
Farid streets. According to the defence lawyers, a report by the Traffic
Ministry confirms there were no complaints of a protest in that street
on that day.
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