Including a baby .. Egyptian security arrests a whole family in Alexandria

Mohamed Seif El Din - Cairo

Egyptian security forces arrested a whole family in mid-March in the province of Alexandria, whose fate is still unknown because of the enforced disappearance, according to human rights activist Haitham Ghneim.

The family consists of three individuals - as Ghoneim explained - they are: Omar Abdel Hamid Abdel Hamid Abu El Naga (husband / born 18-10-1993), Manar Adel Abdel Hamid Abu Naga (wife / born 10-12-1993), and Braa Abdelhamid Aboul Naga (child born 11-3-2018).

So far, the Egyptian authorities have not issued any comment on the incident, but the Interior Ministry usually denies there are enforced disappearances.

This is not the first case in which a whole family has been arrested and forcibly disappeared. In March 2018, the police force arrested the young Abdulla Mudar, his wife, his infant daughter and his wife's brother.

The family appeared in the Supreme State Security Prosecution after 23 days of enforced disappearance and investigated with members of the family for belonging to a "terrorist" organization.

However, the International Organization for the Protection of Human Rights issued a report on the targeting of entire families by killing or arresting the Egyptian regime and highlighted eight cases, pointing to the presence of many The cases were not covered by the report.

Among them are the families of Khairat al-Shater, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was arrested after the July 3, 2013 coup. His sons Sa'ad, al-Hassan and Aisha were arrested and three of his daughters' husbands accused of joining an illegal group.

As well as the family of the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Muhammad al-Beltagy, where he and two of his sons are in prison, while his daughter Asma was killed during the dismantling of the sit-in Rabaa al-Adawiya on August 14, 2013.

Last week, the Egyptian Coordination of Rights and Freedoms monitored 146 violations of human rights in Egypt, ranging from 108 cases of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, three cases of medical negligence in prisons, three cases of extrajudicial killings and thirty cases of trials and other violations.