Journalist Badr Mohamed Badr has disappeared after his release ... and his family holds the Egyptian authorities responsible

Mohamed Seif El-Din - Cairo

The family of journalist writer Badr Mohamed Badr, 61, blamed the Egyptian authorities for his personal safety, accusing the Ministry of Interior of hiding him since last Tuesday despite having obtained a decision to release him from the Supreme State Security Prosecution.

"The family sent a telegraph to the Egyptian Attorney General and the Minister of the Interior to reveal the fate of her disappeared husband, and she also addressed the Egyptian Press Syndicate to intervene, but she has not received any response yet," said his former parliamentary wife, Azza al-Jarf.

Al-Jarf explained in her interview with Al-Jazeera Net that after the decision to release the path that her husband obtained last Tuesday, he was transferred to the Haram Police Department and then to the 6th of October City Police Department in Giza Governorate to implement the decision, before he disappeared and the connection with him was lost.

Badr was arrested in March 2017 and accused of spreading false news aimed at damaging the country's reputation in case No. 316 of 2017, confining the Supreme State Security Prosecution.

The arrest of journalist Badr Mohamed, born in 1958, was among a large list of politicians, writers, artists, and journalists in the September 1981 arrests at the end of the era of former President Anwar Sadat.

Badr was appointed editor-in-chief of Liwa al-Islam magazine in 1988, then worked for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shaab in 1990, then worked as editor-in-chief of the Afaq Arabia newspaper in 2000, and he left in 2004 to head the editor of the Arab Family newspaper until it closed in November 2006, and worked as a reporter for some platforms Arab media, including Al Jazeera Net, and has seven books.

Yesterday, Saturday, Reporters Without Borders condemned the continuation of the crackdown against journalists, which it considered the fiercest in Egypt since President Abdel Fattah El Sisi assumed power after the coup against the late President Mohamed Morsi in the summer of 2013.

The organization has documented the detention of at least 22 journalists since the protest movement against al-Sisi began last September, with only eight of those released.

It is noteworthy that Egypt is ranked 163 (out of 180 countries) on the world press freedom ranking published by Reporters Without Borders earlier this year.