Abdul Rahman Mohammed - Al Jazeera Net

Egyptian human rights organizations expressed their fears that a woman, her infant and her husband continue to be hidden for more than fifty days, after arresting them from their home in Cairo, considering this to be cause for concern.

The security authorities hid Mai Muhammad Abdel Sattar, her husband Islam Hussein, and their infant, Faris, after their arrest on the first day of last November, an incident that followed the arrest and disappearance of her brother as well, according to human rights sources.

The Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms said that the security forces in Cairo Governorate "continue to forcibly hide the 23-year-old citizen Mai Mohamed Abdel Sattar, and her infant child Faris, and her husband Islam Hussein, for the 52nd day in a row without legal basis."

She noted that the security forces arrested them from their home on the first of last November at two and a half am, and took them to an unknown destination.

Since then, the families of the couple have been trying to find out where they are detained, and in this context, they sent telegrams to the Attorney General and the Minister of the Interior, but their efforts were unsuccessful.

In turn, Salma Ashraf, the official in charge of the Egyptian file with Human Rights Monitor, warned against the continued disappearance of May, her baby and her husband, considering it an issue that calls for "anxiety and panic" in the context of what is being exposed to human rights abuses, the latest of which is the death of Citizen Maryam Salem due to medical negligence.

And human rights sources revealed the death of Maryam, who is politically detained in Al-Qanater prison last Saturday due to the deliberate medical negligence of the prison administration.

In her talk to Al-Jazeera Net, Salma Ashraf saw that this matter reflects the "catastrophic" of the situation in Egypt, and confirms that it has become "completely inhumane" as it transcends being based on violations to become a "brutal situation" based on revenge on the whole society and its different generations. "

In this context, she indicated that there are more than one case of infants arrested, forcibly disappeared, or forcibly deported from their detained fathers, and placed in orphanages in the order of the state despite the fact that their fathers are alive.

Egyptian human rights said that we live in a country that mastered the art of enforced disappearance and then killing, either directly after claiming armed confrontation, executions or slow killings, as happened with Maryam Salem, considering that this case indicates an escalation of violations against women.

The campaign "Stop Enforced Disappearance" said last August that 1,856 people had been subjected to enforced disappearance since it had documented cases of disappearance since August 2015, and most of them subsequently appeared before various investigative agencies.

In a recent report, the Egyptian Working Group documented 63 cases of enforced disappearance, and the bodies of the disappeared subsequently appeared in army or police statements that they claimed were killed during clashes with the security forces.

On the other hand, the authorities deny the existence of enforced disappearances with their security headquarters, confirming that these are allegations, and any occurrence of that is faced by the law.

Enforced disappearance - as defined by international human rights law - means the kidnapping or secret imprisonment of a person by a state, political organization, or third party with a mandate or support from a state for the purpose of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.