- A year of detention, 365 days behind prison bars the case of, “Fuad Ismail Zaghloul” third year student – at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tanta, and who was arrested arbitrarily on Wednesday, 29/10/2014, after he was detained inside the administrative building of the University of Tanta for 6 days in a row under enforced disappearance then took him and another student to the headquarters of the first section of Tanta, and in another violation the university administration issued an arbitrary decision to dismiss the student for full academic year.
It states that he had been in prison for an entire year, and then on Tuesday, 17/02/2015, there was a decision to release him on bail of 1200 pounds but the public prosecutor appealed to the court’s decision, and then he continued his imprisonment and then he was forced to hide for more than forty days, to be presented later in a pending trial and other military case and both are fabricated cases.
The student arbitrary arrest and force disappearance are flagrant violation of the laws and international conventions to which Egypt has signed and ratified, particularly as stated in Article 55 of the Egyptian Constitution and the current, which states that: “Every person who is either arrested, detained, or his freedom is restricted shall be treated in a manner that maintains his dignity. He/she may not be tortured, intimidated, coerced, or physically or morally harmed; and may not be seized or detained except in places designated for that purpose, which shall be adequate on human and health levels. The State shall cater for the needs of people with disability. Violating any of the aforementioned is a crime punished by Law. An accused has the right to remain silent. Every statement proved to be made by a detainee under any of the foregoing actions, or threat thereof, shall be disregarded and not be relied upon”
As well as article 54 which states: ” Personal freedom is a natural right, shall be protected and may not be infringed upon. Except for the case of being caught in flagrante delicto, it is not permissible to arrest, search, detain, or restrict the freedom of anyone in any way except by virtue of a reasoned judicial order that was required in the context of an investigation, every person whose freedom is restricted shall be immediately notified of the reasons therefore; shall be informed of his/her rights in writing; shall be immediately enabled to contact his/her relatives and lawyer; and shall be brought before the investigation authority within twenty four (24) hours as of the time of restricting his/her freedom.’
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