29 January 2019

Egyptian journalist disappears after being stopped at Cairo airport

On 29 January, the Egyptian journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada was detained by authorities at Cairo airport. He was returning from Tunisia and he has not be heard of after his detention at the airport. The 30 years old journalist was expected to attend a meeting at the Press Syndicate in which he should have been interviewed in order to become member of the body. Members of the syndicate signed a petition condemning Ziada’s arrest and enforced disappearance. Ahmed Gamal Ziada was already arrested and imprisoned in 2015 to have participated at University Al-Azar’s clashes (the charges were illegal protesting and engagement in violent activities). According to Stop Enforced Disappearance campaign, from 2013 to 2018 at least 1530 cases of enforced disappearance took place in Al-Sisi’s Egypt.

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