Hesham Selim

Hesham Selim

Category
  • Political figures belonging to partisan or opposition groups
Status
  • Detained

Lawyer, member of the Bread and Freedom Party. He was arrested from his home in Mansoura on December 31, 2018, and disappeared for two weeks until he appeared before the Supreme State security Prosecution on January 14, 2019 on state security Case No. 1739/2018 accused of participating with a terrorist group in the exercise of its activities and spreading false news. In November 2020, the Criminal Court decided to release him, and then he was subsequently rotated on Case No. 1056 of 2020 with the same previous charges. He is still under pretrial detention.