Assiut Military Court ruled on Tuesday 23/2/2016 to postpone the trial, “Omar Sibaei” student at Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University – Assiut branch, to a session on Monday 02/29/2016 and so on charges of manufacturing and possessing explosives at the Al-Azhar university city of Assiut.
It is worth mentioning that the military prosecutor had ordered the release of the student pending in that case on Wednesday 12/16/2015 after being acquitted of the criminal court, which attributed to him in another case on Monday, 12/14/2015, and then was scheduled to release him, but student’s family were surprised that the student was taken to an unknown destination where he remained under enforced disappearance for 20 days, until appeared and have been included in the new issue during the period of his disappearance, which was presented to a second Assiut prosecutor which decided his detention pending the investigation on charges of belonging to a group based on the odds of Egyptian law.
Recalling that the student has been arrested arbitrarily without permission along with 4 other students on Tuesday, 03/31/2015, and so by the security forces from inside the university campus , and then has been forced disappearance, prompting lawyers to submit complaints to Attorney-General Assiut and work records of police departments stating their disappearance, to show the student “Omar Sibai” After that alone then was submitted to the General Prosecutor’s Office, which charged him with: the manufacture and possession of explosives at the headquarters of the university city of Al-Azhar in Assiut, and then the student detention continued even was referred to a misdemeanor court in on Sunday, 09/20/2015, to be referred back to the military court.
it should be noted that what was done against the student of arbitrary arrest without a warrant and then subjected to the crime of enforced disappearances twice, one after the issuance of a decision to release him, all of this is a flagrant violation of the laws of the Egyptian interior international conventions which criminalized categorically arrest anyone arbitrarily without any legal reason, as necessitated that if anyone is arrested must be presented to the investigative body competent, besides, the decision to refer the student to the military justice system was in violation of Article 10 of the Universal Declaration of human rights which states that “everyone is entitled in full equality with others, in a hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal “.
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