Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy

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Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy ( Arabic إبراهيم متولي حجازي; * around 1964) is an Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist . He is co-founder of the Egyptian Association of the Families of the Disappeared , which has been documenting the disappearance of Egyptian citizens since 2013.

Life

Metwally Hegazy disappeared on September 10, 2017 at Cairo International Airport , where he was about to catch a flight to Geneva. At the invitation of the WGEID (Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances) , a working group of the United Nations , he was to attend the meeting of the UN Human Rights Council from September 11 to 15 . It was not until a colleague recognized him in a prosecutor's office that Metwally was officially taken into custody. He is accused of illegally setting up an organization, spreading false news and collaborating with foreign organizations. He is currently in al-Aqrab , the notorious Tora Prison (Tora Prison 992 Most-Security) . As Reuters reports, Egyptian opponents of the government are kidnapped by security forces and then spend weeks, months or years in jail without being charged. The authorities deny these allegations.

The invitation to Geneva came at a time when relations between Italy and Egypt, frozen because of the Giulio Regeni case, were about to be resumed. Metwally Hegazy represents the Regeni family as a lawyer and should also report on this case in Geneva. Germany, Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom expressed their deep concern about the disappearance of the lawyer and called on the Egyptian government, which in the Egyptian Constitution guaranteed freedom of civil society and protection from torture to guarantee (to Ensure the freedom of civil society and the protection from torture) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Declan Walsh: Lawyer Who Worked for Egypt's Disappeared Himself Vanishes The New York Times, September 13, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017
  2. ↑ Update: Association of the Families of the Disappeared founder disappears at Cairo airport, brought before State Security Prosecution, accessed on December 23, 2017
  3. ↑ "The lawyer who fought for the disappeared and disappeared himself." In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 18, 2017, accessed on December 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ European nations condemn detention of lawyer in slain Italian student investigation Reuters, November 2, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2017
  5. ↑ Statement on the Case of Ibrahim Metwally Hegacy, Government of the Netherlands, November 3, 2017, accessed on December 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Metwally Hegazy, Ibrahim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1964