Marwa Arafa

Marwa Arafa

Category
  • Creative artists, novelists
Status
  • Detained

A translator and a blogger, married with a 2 years old daughter. Security forces arrested her from her home at dawn on April 20, 2020, after storming her home and taking her to an unknown destination, and she remained subject to enforced disappearance for more than two weeks until her appearance in the Supreme State security Prosecution on the evening of May 4, 2020. The prosecution investigated her on state security Case No. 570 of 2020 with accusations of participation in a terrorist group with knowledge of its purposes, misuse of social media, and publication and transmission of false news and data. She has been held in pretrial detention in Qanater women prison since then.