CAIRO -
Egyptian media and activists said that the Egyptian authorities released today, Sunday, a number of activists who were being held in pretrial detention.
Amid expectations of a presidential pardon soon for some of those who have been sentenced to final rulings.
The National Council for Human Rights announced its participation in receiving those released by decisions of the Public Prosecution who are in pretrial detention, according to Egyptian newspapers.
The President of the Council, Ambassador Moushira Khattab, expressed the council’s members’ optimism about the expected results in this file, stressing that the coming period will witness more legal and humanitarian reviews of many of those detained or convicted who meet the terms of the presidential pardon, she said.
For its part, the Reform and Development Party said that the head of the party, Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, a member of the National Council for Human Rights, participated - today, Sunday - with 41 families and families of the released detainees.
The statement indicated that the released were among those held in pretrial detention pending political issues and freedom of opinion and expression from various political backgrounds.
El-Sadat indicated that the coming period will witness legal and humane reviews to release more pretrial detainees or convicts who meet the conditions of a police or presidential pardon.
The procedures for releasing a number of young people who are being held in pretrial detention have begun, with expectations that 40 . will be released
Abdo Fayed-Walid Shawqi-Haitham Al-Banna-Hamid Mohamadin-Mohamed Salah-Amr Imam-Ahmed Tammam-Hassan Al-Barbari-Rahman Bassiouni-Radwa Hlul-Abdul Aleem Ammar pic.twitter.com/v0AWhF4atz
— Shorouk News (@Shorouk_News) April 24, 2022
In turn, Representative Muhammad Abdel Aziz, Undersecretary of the Human Rights Committee in the House of Representatives, said that this marks the return of the Presidential Pardon Committee to work and the expansion of its activities to include debtors and debtors.
On his Facebook page, Abdel-Aziz (he was a member of the Tamarod campaign that demanded the departure of elected President Mohamed Morsi in 2013) said that he thanks President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for the release of a group of imprisoned youth, in preparation for the return of the presidential pardon committee and the expansion of its activities to include those who are in debt alongside the youth.
According to Al-Shorouk newspaper, among the names that are being released are: Walid Shawqi, Mohamed Salah, Amr Imam, Abdo Fayed, Haitham Al-Banna, Ahmed Tammam, Allam Abdel-Alim Ammar, Radwa Halloul, Abdel-Rahman Bassiouni, Hassan Barbari, Hamed Mohamedin.
Activists stressed that what happened - today, Sunday - is the release of a number of detainees in pretrial detention, and not a presidential pardon, because the presidential pardon has final rulings against them.
The names that have been announced so far are all releases, none of them have been convicted.
This is a “preparation” for the return of the pardon committee, as most of the convicts are still unaccounted for, and what happened was not a “presidential pardon” until the latest available news, but rather a wave of releasing detainees in pretrial detention, as happened once before, when Mahienour, Sulafa, Hossam and others were released.
— Abdelrahman ElGendy (@El_Gendy_95) April 24, 2022
For his part, the head of the Complaints, Monitoring and Follow-up Committee at the National Council for Human Rights, Walaa Jad Al-Karim, said that the council succeeded, in coordination with the Public Prosecution and the Ministry of Interior, in releasing a number of young people who are being held in pretrial detention pending cases of a political nature, noting that all of those released were They have submitted complaints to the Council during the last period regarding their pretrial detention.
Jad al-Karim added that he and a member of the Council, Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, participated in the procedures for releasing these young men, as representatives of the National Council for Human Rights.
He expected that there would be more release procedures in the coming period, and the breakthrough that took place is a good step, stressing that there is great flexibility on the part of the Ministry of Interior and the Public Prosecution and there is continuous coordination with them, adding that he has hope that the case of pretrial detention will be closed, and all special problems will be ended. Imprisonment soon, he said.
Two days ago, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said - during a meeting with a number of journalists and media professionals - that the country needs to launch a comprehensive political dialogue commensurate with what he described as the idea of building or launching the new republic.
Feelings of joy prevailed on social media, and calls for the release of the rest of the detainees soon, whose numbers are in the thousands, according to opposition parties and human rights reports.
We need the Public Prosecution and the State Security Prosecution to do their part, only to keep in real investigations and respect for their decisions.
— Ismailawy (@ismailawy_) April 24, 2022
The release of 41 political prisoners
My back for the remaining 60,000
— Moataz Zaher (@moatazahe) April 24, 2022
And Muhammad Gharib, also, release, Lord, increase our joys ❤️❤️
— Chuba Bin Radwan (@jooobaaaaa1) April 24, 2022
# Eid_revolution
The release of Radwa…….. Walid Shawqi
looks like a feast that will make us all happy, hope for the
rest, Lord pic.twitter.com/rvB5mJsQRM
— God is my story..Abu Seif (@hkaytky) April 24, 2022
Urgent
The release of Walid Shawqi, Radwa Muhammad, researcher Abdo Fayed, Muhammad Salah, Amr Imam and Haitham Al-Banna pic.twitter.com/6YgtGiilAI
— DAWN Egypt (@DAWN__EGYPT) April 24, 2022