Date of arrest : 31 May 2018
Profession : Journalist
Place of detention : Unknown
work place : Al-Watan Qatari newspaper
– He was arrested on 31 May 2018. He had been missing for 45 days before he appeared before the State Security Prosecution for investigation in connection with Case No. 441 of 2018 State Security on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news. The journalist had been held in remand detention until the Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered his release on 15 July 2020 after exceeding the two-year limit of pretrial detention. He was then transferred to the police station in preparation for his release. However, he went missing for 4 months until he appeared before the Agouza Prosecution on 18 November 2020, as he was then interrogated into the Case No. 2727 of 2020 Agouza Misdemeanor on a charge of joining a terrorist group. Fahmy had been kept in pretrial detention until he was ordered released on bail of EGP 5,000 on the first of December 2020. Accordingly, the journalist was transferred to the police station in preparation for his actual release, but he went missing once again for 45 days, and afterwards he appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution on 16 January 2021 and was then interrogated in connection with the Case No. 955 of 2020 State Security on a charge of joining a terrorist group and he has been held in pretrial detention since then.
