SeSaMO e BRISMES con i rispettivi Comitati per la libertà accademica (CAF) indirizzano una lettera aperta congiunta alle autorità egiziane a seguito del mancato rilascio di Alaa ʿAbd El-Fattah.
[…] “We write to you urgently in relation to the sentencing of writer and activist Alaa ʿAbd El-Fattah. Mr ʿAbd El-Fattah was arrested in 2019 and held in remand detention for two years pending investigations conducted by the Supreme State Security Prosecution. He was charged with “joining a terrorist group, spreading false news and misusing social media.” Such charges are routinely leveled against democratic political activists. Mr ʿAbd Abd El-Fattah was detained for five years and was set to be released on September 29. However, authorities have refused to count the two years he spent in remand detention as time served in the course of his sentence. This violates Egyptian law, which mandates that time served in pre-trial detention be deducted from eventual sentencing.“