East Cairo Prosecution Extends Mr. Ahmad Abdallah’s, the Head of Board of Trustees of Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), Preventive Detention for 15 Days.

April 27, 2016
Today, April 27, 2016, East Cairo prosecution decided on extending Mr. Abdallah’s incarceration for 15 days. Mr. Abdallah has been accused of ten accusations among them belonging to a terrorist group, inciting the masses to overthrow the ruling regime and promoting terrorism. The detailed accusations are as they appear in the case No. 10 698/2016 at the court for minor offences of Ain Shams:
1- Incitement for the use of force to overthrow the government and to change the state constitution and the republican system
2- Incitement for attacking police stations in purposes of terrorism
3- Use of violence and threats to force the President to refrain from exercising his statutory powers and duties entrusted to him by the Egyptian constitution
4- Belonging to a terrorist group
5- Indirectly promoting ways, through the world wide web, of terrorist offences
6- The use of one of the world wide websites to promote ideas calling for committing terrorist acts in a bid to deceive the public
7- Incitement for public gathering that shall jeopardize security and public peace and has for purposes to influence the authorities and harm the public assets for the purposes of terrorism
8- Incitement for protests with the aim to jeopardize security and public order and influence the function of public services, block roads and attack the citizens for terrorist purposes
9- diffusion of news, information and false rumors that disrupt public security and damage the relationship between people and the public interest
10- Possession of leaflets calling for overthrowing the regime and changing the constitution.
Consequently, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms is submitting an elongated complaint to the following committees UN working group on arbitrary detention, UN special rapporteur on freedom of association and assembly, UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders and UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, and will file an update to the UN mechanisms.
Mr. Abdallah’s detention has resulted into international reaction as the family of Giulio Regeni, having read Amnesty’s press release expressed concern over the recent wave of arrests of human rights activists, lawyers and journalists in Egypt. Some of them are also directly engaging in the search for the truth on the abduction, torture and murder of Giulio. The family expressed particular concern over the arrest of Mr. Ahmad Abdallah, the Head of Board of Trustees of ECRF, who is providing the family’s lawyers with consultancy in Egypt.
The latest wave of mass arrests in Cairo and other governorates clearly reflects the repressive systematic strategy the state is implementing in a bid to secure itself from any possible opposition to the currently in-action policies. This strategy aims at intimidating the possible masses reacting to the state’s policies, which reflects how nervous the ruling regime is.
On Monday April 25, 2016, at 3 in the morning, security forces broke into Engineer and PhD holder Mr. Ahmad Abdallah’s house in fifth settlement district, searched his home, arrested him and confiscated some of his belongings and papers. Afterwards, they transferred him to New Cairo police station. The East Cairo Prosecution in relation to protests in April 2016 had issued an arrest warrant earlier against Mr. Ahmad Abdallah. Today