Joint Statement: 8 Parties and Movements and More than 100 Individuals Announce Their Solidarity with Alexandria’s Prisoners of Conscience and the Defendants of the (December 30) Trials

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists

In the final hours of the year, Alexandria courts are set to review two cases as part of a series of incidents, rulings, and trials that have placed Egypt at the top of negative rankings concerning freedom of speech and the repression of society across various groups, including journalists, lawyers, and even those who have no relation to or opinion on public affairs.
In the case publicly known as the “Academy Case,” the judge exercised his legal right to detain human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Massry, recipient of the Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights Prize, along with unionist and member of the Bread and Freedom Party, Moatasem Medhat, during the session on November 18, until the verdict on December 30. Five defendants are involved, including lawyer and coordinator of the Constitution Party in Alexandria, Walid El-Amary, and human rights lawyer Asmaa Naim. Both defendants in another case are to be reviewed on the same day. Additionally, the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment) coordinator in Alexandria, Ziad Abou Fadel, was detained, despite all attending voluntarily, without arrest warrants or even a summons from the prosecution. The case lacks strong evidence, witnesses, or proof—just a contradictory police investigation report.
In the case known as the “Court Case,” involving seven Alexandria lawyers, although they were acquitted in an opposition session after lawyer Mohamed Ramadan was sentenced in person, and the others in absentia, to a fine of 50,000 EGP, the prosecution hastened to appeal the acquittal, scheduling the session for December 30.
To prevent December 30 from becoming another date for undermining justice and confirming the authorities’ determination to weaken state institutions and use them to close and monopolize public space, we call on all honorable citizens to sign and show their solidarity and encourage others to join in opposing the blatant disregard for the basic principles of justice and the foundations of a modern state by signing this statement.
Signatories:
Parties and Movements:
• Al-Dostour Party
• Bread and Freedom Party
• Popular Socialist Alliance Party
• Egypt Freedom Party
• Strong Egypt Party
• April 6 Movement
• April 6 Democratic Front
• Revolutionary Socialists
Individuals:
1. Ahmed El-Bahrawi – Lawyer
2. Ahmed El-Khamissi – Writer and Journalist
3. Ahmed El-Sheikh – Lawyer
4. Ahmed Samih El-Aidarousi – Journalist and Member of the Political Bureau of the Karama Party
5. Ahmed Abdel Hamid – Student
6. Ahmed Abdel Wadoud
7. Akram Ismail – Engineer
8. Elham Eidaros – Founding Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
9. Amir Ramses – Director
10. Amir Salem – Lawyer at the Court of Cassation
11. Iman Lotfy Ali
12. Ayman Abdel Moaty – Blogger
13. Enas El-Masrawy
14. Ehab Mansi – Al-Dostour Party
15. Basel Ramses – Director and Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
16. Tamer Sahab – President of the Egypt Freedom Party
17. Tamer Wageeh – Researcher
18. Gamal Eid – Human Rights Lawyer
19. Gamila Ismail – Media Professional
20. Hossam Nasr – Popular Socialist Alliance Party – Alexandria
21. El-Husseiny Shahin – Al-Dostour Party
22. Hamdi Qishta – Import Manager
23. Hamdeen Sabahi – Former Presidential Candidate and Former Head of the Karama Party
24. Khaled El-Balshy – Journalist
25. Khaled El-Balshy – Deputy of the Freedoms Committee at the Journalists’ Syndicate
26. Khaled El-Hawary – Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment) – Alexandria
27. Khaled Dawood – President of Al-Dostour Party
28. Khaled Ali – Lawyer at the Court of Cassation, Former Presidential Candidate, and President of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
29. Ramy Sabry Kryaks – Pharmacist
30. Raed El-Husseiny – President of the Independent Teachers Syndicate
31. Rosanna Nagih
32. Sally Touma – Psychiatrist
33. Saeed Abu Taleb – Engineer
34. Sama El-Turki – Translator
35. Somaya Adel – Lawyer
36. Susan Nada – Lawyer and Founding Member of the Bread and Freedom Party
37. Shady El-Ghazaly Harb
38. Shady Ali Ali – Unionist at Nile Linen Group
39. Shazly El-Sawy – Unionist
40. Sherif Diab – Activist
41. Saber Moawad – Al-Dostour Party
42. Sabry Fawzi El-Sayed – Engineer
43. Salah El-Ansary Mohamed
44. Salah El-Deeb – Popular Socialist Alliance Party – Alexandria
45. Taher Mokhtar – Doctor
46. Abdel Gelil Mostafa – Former Coordinator of the Kefaya Movement
47. Abdel Hafiz Tayel – Right to Education Foundation
48. Abdel Raouf Bateekh – Labor Journalist and Poet
49. Abdullah El-Saeed – Photojournalist
50. Abdel Moneim El-Sakhaoui – Lawyer at the Court of Cassation
51. Omar Halim – Independent
52. Amr Badr – Member of the Journalists’ Syndicate Council
53. Amr Abdel Basset – Engineer
54. Amr Farouk – Unionist
55. Fatma Ramadan – Unionist
56. Karam Abdel Halim – Unionist
57. Karim Noubi – Student
58. Kamal Zayed – Vice President of the Karama Party
59. Magdy Belal
60. Moheb Aboud – Unionist
61. Mohsen Sabry – Member of the Supreme Body of Strong Egypt Party
62. Mohamed Abu El-Einin – Lawyer at the Appeals Court
63. Mohamed El-Qassas
64. Mohamed Soliman
65. Mohamed Abdel Ani – Human Rights Lawyer
66. Mohamed Arafa – Academic Researcher
67. Mohamed Alaa
68. Mohamed Kamal – Former Spokesperson for the April 6 Movement
69. Mohamed Mohsen – Student
70. Mohamed Medhat Mostafa – Coordinator of the Popular Socialist Alliance Party – Alexandria
71. Mohamed Walid – Student
72. Mahmoud El-Saqqa – Journalist
73. Medhat El-Zahed – President of the Popular Socialist Alliance Party
74. Madiha El-Melwani – Pharmacist
75. Mostafa Abdel Razek – Journalist
76. Mostafa Kamel El-Sayed – Lawyer
77. Mostafa Ibrahim – Al-Dostour Party
78. Mostafa El-Hagry
79. Mostafa Bassiouni – Journalist
80. Mostafa Kamel El-Sayed
81. Ma’soum Marzouk – Former Assistant Foreign Minister and Leader of the Karama Party
82. Mamdouh Makram – Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment) – Assiut
83. Mona Mina – Doctor and Deputy of the Doctors’ Syndicate
84. Michel Maher – Independent
85. Nagi Rashed Abdel Salam – Worker
86. Nadia Mohamed – Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment) – Alexandria
87. Nasser Amin – Lawyer at the Court of Cassation
88. Nasser Khattab – Lawyer at the Appeals Court
89. Noha Kamal – Activist
90. Hani Ishaq
91. Hani El-Gamal – Al-Dostour Party
92. Heba William
93. Hoda Kamel – Retired
94. Hesham Fouad – Journalist
95. Hend Helal – Egyptian Petroleum Workers Union
96. Haitham El-Hariri – Member of Parliament
97. Haitham Mohamedin – Lawyer
98. Wafaa Ashri – Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
99. Walid El-Sheikh – Journalist
100. Walid El-Amary – Lawyer and Coordinator of Al-Dostour Party – Alexandria
101. Yehia Hussein
102. Youssef Shaaban – Journalist
103. Ziad Abou Fadel – Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
104. Omaima Emad – Agricultural Engineer and Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
105. Mousa Abu Quraim – Founding Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
106. Nashwa Zein – Lawyer
107. Ahmed Fawzi – Lawyer
108. Dalia El-Sigini – University Lecturer
109. Mohamed El-Sherif – Member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment)
110. Mohamed Omar Genady – Chemist