Egypt: Release of human rights defender Ahmed Abdallah

September 12, 2016

On 10 September 2016 a Cairo criminal court ordered the release of human rights defender Ahmed Abdallah and four other people in the same case, on bail of 1,000 Egyptian pounds. After the court ordered the release on bail, the prosecution decided not to appeal against the decision.

Ahmed was arrested on 25 April, on charges including possession of leaflets with intent to incite violence, calling to overthrow the regime and change the constitution, and the promotion by indirect ways and through the web of terrorist offences.

Ahmed Abdallah is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), an organisation that works peacefully in several governorates to defend human rights in Egypt. The ECRF has recently campaigned extensively against the systematic use of enforced disappearance in Egypt. In its recent report, it accuses security services such as the National Security Agency and the Military Intelligence Service of abducting political activists and holding them incommunicado in secret detention centres.

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