The release of prisoners of Eid in Egypt .. When the prisoner does not know did not prison!

"When the prisoner does not know what was imprisoned or what went out," this may have been the tongue of some commenting on the Egyptian authorities' decision to release prominent dissidents. One of them called for a popular referendum on the continuation of the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi or not. Arrested during the last Eid al-Adha.

The decision of the sudden release was received by the pioneers of social networking sites with joy, wishing similar decisions to the detainees who are crammed with Egyptian prisons, but the decision to release raised the question of the reasons as the decision of detention raised more questions.

"A decision issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office on the release of Ambassador Masoum Marzouq, Abdel Fattah Al-Saidi Al-Banna, Raed Salama, Yahya Al-Qazzaz and activist Nermin Hussain on charges of joining them," local media reported on Monday, quoting unnamed sources. To a banned group, to disturb peace and public security, and to spread false news. "

It is interesting to note that the decision to release did not include two defendants in the same case, Amr Mohamed and Samah Soudi, even though they face the same charges in case No. 440 of 2018, which confers the security of a superior state, namely, "taking leadership in a group established contrary to the provisions of the law, The provisions of the Constitution and laws, the prevention of State institutions and public authorities from carrying out their actions, the violation of the personal liberty of citizens and the damage to national unity and social peace. "

Local newspapers quoted a security source as saying that "this decision comes in response to appeals of rights and various claims and family pleas, called for the release of the accused, and after the joint coordination between the security services and the Public Prosecutor's case, where acquitted defendants of the charges against them."

The security source explained that the release of the accused will be within hours, while the lawyer of the defendants confirmed that the decision was a surprise to all.

Reuters quoted another security source as saying that the prosecution may decide to keep the cases being investigated or refer the accused to a criminal court.

While the anchor close to the security services, Ahmed Moussa, that the case has not been held yet, and that the decision came from the Attorney General in accordance with his powers of law "without pressure from human rights or activists," he said.

Referendum against Sisi
On August 23, 2018, the security authorities arrested former ambassador Masoum Marzouq, economic expert Raed Salama, academic Yahya al-Qazzaz and four prominent oppositionists, Nermin Hussein, Amr Mohamed, Abdel Fattah Said and Samah Soudi.

The arrest followed Marzouq's release earlier this month in a call to the people calling for a popular referendum on whether the regime would continue or not, as well as going out on August 31 if the regime did not accept his demands.

Marzouq, a former diplomat, was an assistant foreign minister, known for his opposition to the current regime, and one of the prominent leftist figures who announced their refusal to give up the regime on the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia in accordance with an agreement signed on 8 April 2016.

The economic expert Raed Salama, a prominent leftist, and the economic program official of the former presidential candidate Hamdine Sabbahi, while the academic Yahya al-Qazzaz, one of the most prominent voices opposition in the country.

International message
"The decision is a good and positive signal for the future," said lawyer and former presidential candidate Khaled Ali, who wished similar decisions to dozens of names serving a period of imprisonment for cases based solely on investigative records.

In a press statement, the opposition jurist said he hoped this decision would be the beginning of a new phase and that the public space would be opened in the coming periods.

For her part, MP Margaret Azer, deputy of the Human Rights Committee in the House of Representatives, said that the decision to release indicates that Egypt is a state of law before anything else, stressing in press statements that the prosecutor's decision sends a special message to the entities and the international organization that "the human rights file in Egypt will not be a pressure paper" .

Human rights activists say Sisi has launched a campaign against all opposition colors since the military coup in the summer of 2013, with Human Rights Watch saying at least 60,000 people were arrested for political reasons.

The campaign of arrests began with the Sisi Islamists, and then turned to the political activists affiliated with the January 2011 revolution, especially from the April 6 youth movement and the revolutionary socialists, leading to the arrest of members of political parties pro-Sisi and even close to the same sissi as the youth campaign leader Hazem Abdel Azim, Army leaders such as former chief of staff Sami Annan, who was arrested after announcing his intention to run for Sisi to compete for the presidency.

But Sisi denies the existence of political prisoners, stressing that all those in prison are criminal suspects, his supporters say that the measures are necessary for the stability of the country.

The joy of networking sites
Although the pioneers of social networking sites received the release decision with great joy, some questioned the rest of the detainees as well as those who compensate the detainees for the psychological, physical and financial harm they suffered, especially after it proved that there is no real charge behind the arrest.