From its studios in Doha, Al-Jazeera Media Network organized a stand in solidarity with Al-Jazeera journalist colleague Mahmoud Hussein, on the occasion of the passage of three years since his arrest in Egypt.
In the stand, the Acting Director General of the Al-Jazeera Network, Dr. Mustafa Swaq, called on the Egyptian authorities to "wake up from this intoxication that is going through ... intoxication / trance of power, to release the able Egyptian journalist unconditionally."
The stand - according to Swak - comes in solidarity with the family of Mahmoud Hussein, who suffers the loss of her son, breadwinner and father all these years, and with all the journalists who were arrested, for nothing but they convey the truth in every objective and professional manner.
He appealed to the drivers of international organizations concerned with human rights and freedom of the press to exert more pressure on the Egyptian authorities to release the journalist Mahmoud Hussein, and urged the countries that "claim" that they are championing democracy and human rights to pressure the Egyptian authorities in the same direction.
In the stand, the solidarity listened to a recording of the verse of Mahmoud Hussein as she talks about the feelings of the family as she passes her third year without her father, and about the suffering of her father in his prison from enforced disappearance first and then persecution, and about the death of her grandfather - Hussein's father - as a result of the strokes he was subjected to because of being deprived of His liver pleasure.
She also spoke of a judicial decision to release him earlier, and then re-imprison him in another "fabricated" case that committed her facts attributed to him in 2018, while her father has been in prison since 2016.
Mahmoud Hussein was arrested on a regular visit to his family in Egypt, and he was not then assigned to a job or press coverage, on December 20, 2016, and since his arrest, the prosecution has renewed his remand more than twenty times, without trial.