Ibrahim Abdel Moneim Metwalli Hegazi

Ibrahim Abdel Moneim Metwalli Hegazi

Category
  • HRDs and members of HR organizations
Status
  • Detained

Lawyer, married with children, founder of the Association of the Families of the Disappeared, and the father of Amr Ibrahim, disappeared since 2013. He was arrested at Cairo Airport on 10 September 2017 while on his way to Geneva to attend meetings at the invitation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearance. He was forcibly disappeared, then was charged in Case 900 of 2017, then rotated on State security Case 1470 of 2019, and then again on State security Case 786 of 2020 on the accusation of assuming leadership of a terrorist group. He is being held in solitary confinement in Scorpion Prison, deprived of family visits. He is suffering from enlarged prostate.