- EGYPTWomen
- October 24, 2017
- 13 minutes read
Human Rights Reports: Enforced Disappearance, Arrests of Women in October Escalates to Reach 46
Rights group Egyptian Coordinating Committee of Rights and Freedoms’ (ECRF)’s latest statistics on women detained in Egyptian prisons revealed an increase in the number of girls and women arbitrarily detained and sentenced to prison terms on politically-motivated charges, to reach 46 detainees in October 2017.
Human rights activist Hoda Abdel-Moneim pointed to the escalating arrests of women and how authorities hold them hostages to force their relatives to surrender to security apparatuses – a new and abhorrent phenomenon that must be stopped immediately. She urged human rights activists and organizations to help stop this atrocious crime committed repeatedly by junta regime authorities against Egyptian women.
On the Egyptian authorities’ policy of enforced disappearance of girls, Ahmed Abu-Zeid, researcher at the Arab Media Freedom Monitor, said the high rate of enforced disappearance of girls is a new crime committed vindictively by the coup regime.
"This calls for a unified human rights movement to put pressure on Egyptian regime authorities to stop this systematic crime, which is a blatant violation of legal principles recognized by the Constitution and the law."
ECRF’s list of female detainees included:
First: Nine detainees already sentenced to jail terms:
1. Samia Shanan "life imprisonment"
2. Iman Mustafa "10 years imprisonment, military court"
3. Esraa Khalid "13 years, civil and military courts"
4. Shaimaa Ahmed Saad "5 years"
5. Gihad Abdel-Hamid Taha "3 years"
6. Basma Rifaat "15 years"
7. Fawzia Dessouki "10 years"
8. Yasmin Nadi "3 years"
9. Amal Saber "3 years"
Second: 23 detainees remanded in pretrial custody:
1. Hala Abdel-Mogith
2. Hala Saleh
3. Rana Abdullah
4. Sarah Abdullah
5. Fatima Ali Gaber
6. Sherine Saeed Bekheet
7. Rabab Abdel-Mohsen
8. Ola Hussein
9. Rabab Ismail
10. Reem Qutb
11. Hanan Badr-Eddin
12. Sarah Abdel-Moneim
13. Mona Salem
14. Ghada Abdel-Aziz
15. Sarah Gamal
16. Fatima El-Sayed (AKA Hala Gayyed)
17. Inas Yasser
18. Ola Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
19. Raheeq Saeed
20. Roqaya Mustafa
21. Maryam Amr Habish
22. Asmaa Khaled Ezzelregal
23. Asmaa Zeidan
Third: 14 women under enforced disappearance:
1. Nora Sadiq Al-Sharqawi
2. Rania Ali Omar Radwan
3. Ola Abdel-Hakim Mohamed Al-Saeed
4. Rehab Mahmoud Abdel-Sattar
5. Zubeida Ibrahim Ahmed Yoni
6. Samaher Abul-Rish
7. Karima Ramadan
8. Fathia Mazid Sondoq
9. Iman Hamdi Abdel-Hamid
10. Nisreen Abdullah Suleiman Robaa
11. Ayah Mossad Al-Dahshan
12. Afaf Hussain Salem
13. Omaima Hussein Salem
14. Somaya Maher Hazema
