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UNJUSTLY JAILED FATHER APPEALS PRISON TERM

UA: Third 73.23 Egypt

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On December 22, the Criminal Circuit of the Court of Cassation will examine Badr Mohamed’s appeal against his unjust conviction and five-year prison sentence. He was convicted in January 2023 in a grossly unfair trial in connection to the Ramsis Square protests on August 16, 2013, when he was 17 years old. He is held in Badr 1 prison in cruel and inhuman conditions of detention without access to adequate medical care. The Egyptian authorities must quash Badr Mohamed’s unjust verdict and immediately release him.

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Your Excellency,

I am writing to you to express my grave concern over the prolonged arbitrary detention of Badr Mohamed. He was arrested on May 11, 2020 from his home in front of his wife, Elena Pichler, an Austrian national. On January 12, 2023, the Cairo Criminal Court, following a grossly unfair trial, unjustly convicted and sentenced him to a five-year prison term in connection to 2013 protests in Ramsis Square. During the trial hearings, which commenced following his arrest in May 2020, Badr Mohamed was kept inside a glass cage where he could not fully observe, hear, or speak during proceedings. He was banned from communicating with his lawyer privately through the pretrial and trial phases.

Badr Mohamed is detained in Badr 1 prison, known for its cruel and inhuman detention conditions. He is held in a small, crammed cell with three other people. None of them have beds, blankets, or access to heating. Badr Mohamed is only allowed short family visits once a month, leaving little time for contact with his three-year-old daughter, Amina, which is severely impacting his mental health. Prison visits are extremely exhausting for the family, who travel 60 km to the prison from Cairo and then wait hours only to be allowed 30 minutes together. Prison authorities refuse to allow more than two visitors at the same time, further restricting his contact with the outside world.

I urge you to immediately release Badr Mohamed from arbitrary detention and quash his unjust conviction and sentence. Pending his release, he must be granted access to his family, lawyers, and adequate healthcare and held in conditions that meet international standards for the treatment of prisoners.

Yours sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]

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@AlsisiOfficial Unjustly jailed for 54 months in relation to a protest in 2013 when he was just 17, Badr Mohamed’s appeal is scheduled for 22 December. He is held in cruel conditions & robbed of years with his daughter. Call on authorities to quash the unjust verdict & release him NOW!

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President Abdelfattah al-Sisi

Office of the President, Al Ittihadia Palace

Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt

Fax: +202 2391 1441

[email protected] @AlsisiOfficial

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Ambassador Motaz Mounir Zahran

CC: Egyptian Embassy in the United States

3521 International Court, NW,

Washington DC 20008

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