July 11, 2016
The campaign #Their Freedom Is Their Right to defend Arab prisoners of opinion, which is launched on 4 May 2015 by “Maharat” Foundation and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), and joined by the Arab Group members of IFEX International Network, has declared the Egyptian human rights defender Malek Adly the campaign’s prisoner of July 2016.
Malek Adly, or “Abo Bahyia” as his friends like to call him, is a young lawyer and human rights activist. He provided legal support for several political activists and demonstrators, as well as a number of professional unions and labor leaders, and the families of January 25 Revolution martyrs and wounded, in addition to those who were arrested in different incidents related to the revolution, as well as victims of military trials for civilians and torture victims.
On 5 May 2016, an arrest warrant was issued against Malek after he called upon Egyptian citizens to register powers of attorney to him to file a lawsuit against the delimitation agreement of maritime borders between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, upon which Egyptian sovereignty over its two islands “Tiran and Sinafir” is handed over to Saudi Arabia. As a result, the Public Prosecution issued an arrest warrant against him for allegedly “propagating false news”. THereafter, Malek was arrested by individuals dressed in plain clothes. He was beaten, threatened with a firearm and detained inside an unplated private vehicle with tinted windows. He was held incommunicado at an unknown place where he was interrogated about the lawsuit he filed with respect to “Tiran and Sinafir” islands.
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