Permanent imprisonment through recycled detention orders runs contrary to justice in Egypt

November 18th, 2022

Awake Goy

Prion cells, 10 March 2020 [Daniel/Flickr]

Rasha Mohye El-Din is a teacher in her thirties who lives in the city of Kafr El-Sheikh in the extreme northern corner of Egypt. On the morning of 7 October, 2020, she received a phone call from a lawyer informing her that her brother Mahmoud had reappeared thirty days after vanishing, commonly referred to in Egypt as "enforced disappearance", appearing before the Public Prosecution for a new legal case against him. Rasha rushed to the Public Prosecution office, found her brother, patted him on the shoulder and told him: "Don't worry! God willing, the Lord is on our side." Meanwhile, the prosecutor summoned Mahmoud to the investigation room while Rasha waited. The lawyer came out and told her that this […] Source