Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo

The detained Egyptian human rights lawyer and director of the Adalah Center for Human Rights, Mohammed al-Baqir, on Friday mourned the body of his father, who died at dawn on Thursday, after security forces allowed him to return to his prison.

Amid heavy security, he appeared at the funeral in white uniforms reserved for reserve prisoners, and security forces tried to prevent mourners from approaching him.

The security forces arrested three of the participants in the funeral for trying to photograph Baqir while participating in the funeral funeral, according to one of the participants to the island Net.

Last week, al-Baqir's father suffered a health crisis that caused him to enter intensive care after his son was arrested, and then died.

Activists on social networking sites launched a campaign to demand the Egyptian authorities to remove Mohamed Baqer to funeral of his father.

Al-Baqir was arrested on September 29 from the State Security Prosecution's office while he was in the custody of investigations with the detained political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. 2 in Tora region (south of Cairo) known as the "Scorpio 2".

Al-Baqir and Abdel-Fattah face charges of spreading false news and joining a terrorist group (unnamed), in the case of case No. 1356 of 2019 restricting the security of a supreme state.

Egypt has witnessed a wave of arrests of politicians and activists over the past weeks against the backdrop of escalating protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and human rights organizations criticized the expansion of the campaign of arrests to include lawyers known to defend political detainees.

The security forces arrested the dawn on Wednesday the lawyer and human rights Amr Imam after announcing a partial hunger strike to protest the arrest and torture of the activist Esraa Abdel Fattah and others.

# Urgent A few minutes ago, attorney Amr Emam announces that he is being arrested from his home #Horriya_Rob_Black pic.twitter.com/DDkd6D1U1b

- Dungeon Voice (@ZenzanaVoice) October 16, 2019

The state security prosecutor also decided last week to imprison human rights lawyer Mahinour al-Masri for 15 days pending case No. 488 of 2019 state security on charges of involvement of a terrorist group and the broadcasting of news, statements and false rumors deliberately.