Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo

The families of the detained young men, in solidarity with the case of Mahmoud al-Banna in Egypt, known as the "Martyr of Shahama", demanded their immediate release, especially the two girls, Safa and Ghada Rajab, who disappeared almost a week ago.

The family of the two sisters, Rajab, demanded that state officials immediately release them, stressing in a video clip that it is a shame that girls continue to be imprisoned.

On the 20th of this month, security forces arrested 22 young men and women while they were in the vicinity of the court in Shebin Al-Kom city in the governorate of Menoufia (Nile Delta), north of Cairo, to support Al Banna family and demand retribution. But the Interior Ministry accused them of "belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and using the case to arouse public opinion."

The defendants are on trial for premeditated murder for 18-year-old Banna after he paid for his life for trying to protect a girl in his area from harassment.

Over the past two days, the number of detainees has emerged in connection with the support of the Shahid al-Shahama family, including nine girls. The Supreme State Security Prosecution has charged them (usually with regime opponents), including joining a terrorist group (unnamed), abusing social media, and publishing news. liar.

However, the two girls remained disappeared, prompting the pioneers of the networking sites to launch the marking (hashtag) under the name of "Safa and Ghada must return" demanding their release.

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- samar elfeky (@ SElfeky2020) October 24, 2019
Activists circulated on video sites a video clip of the two girls said they were being trampled by security forces on the street before being arrested, because one of them refused to search her mobile phone by members of the Interior, during a demonstration to demand the right to Banna.

Shots document the moment the police dragged a woman and detained her inside an armored vehicle during the trial of #MohammedRageh accused of killing #Mahmoud_Banna (victim of chivalry) in #Shebin_kom #Monofia pic.twitter.com/Mji4Yv1TfD

- Network Monitoring (@RassdNewsN) October 21, 2019

Since the events of the demonstrations of 20 September last and until now, security forces arrested nearly a hundred women, 34 of them have been released, according to a human rights source for the island Net.

In the period following the military coup in the summer of July 2013 and until June 31, we have documented the arrest of 2,762 women, of whom 125 are currently in prison and 396 cases of enforced disappearance, 15 of whom are under disappearance as of July 15. Last July. "

For his part, the former head of the Human Rights Committee in the Shura Council, Izz al-Din al-Koumi, condemned the arrest of angry youth on the back of the demand for retribution for their colleague Banna.

Al-Koumi said in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net, "The Egyptian regime always calls the Brotherhood peg to cover up its failure and its crimes."

He stressed that the videos of the confessions are often portrayed by the security services under torture, giving an example of what happened to the confessions of foreigners that they participated in the demonstrations on September 20 commissioned by the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood abroad, and then retracted them after returning to their country, stressing that they were forced to confessions after they were tortured.