Listen 0:00 / 0:00 − 1.0x + Default Ready At midnight on 24 September 2019 plainclothes police officers broke into Ahmed Al-Kholy’s apartment in the Haram district of Cairo and took him to the National Security building in Abbasya, without showing a warrant for his arrest. Across the streets of Egypt, a widespread crackdown was underway as calls to demand President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stand down gained momentum. Roughly 2,000 politicians, journalists and activists were arrested and accused under state security cases as the first major demonstrations since the 2013 military coup shook the country’s security apparatus. For ten days Ahmed’s family requested that the public prosecutor and the minister of justice reveal where he was being held but received … Continue reading Egypt: Uncertainty shrouds the future of environmental activist Ahmed Al-Kholy, trapped in pretrial detention for 3 years and counting