مركز ماعت للدراسات الحقوقية والدستورية

The Judgment in Al Azhar Explosions Case Which File did not Closed.

21\08\2007.

Al Azhar explosions ….. The events of this issue go back to the 4^th of April 2005, and what Gaohar Al Saqelly street, in Gamalia district, and districts of Abd El Moneam Reaad, and Al Saeida Aisha witnessed of explosions which victims was three foreign tourists, and four of the process doer and the injured was 26 of which 16 Egyptians…. This case raises public opinion for three years with its details and conditions which is vague. 20\08\2007 was the date decided to close its file before courts by issuing its judgment.

There are more than 2500 person Ministry of Interior detained after the events of this case….Ibraheem Bek country estate, Rostom country estate, and Al Margooshy country estate are districts in Shobra Al Khema which are partially void of habitants except children and old people as a result of the haphazard detention campaign, even women of these poor districts did not saved of chasings and threatens by security body’s officers which found no restrainer.

According to the sayings of a mother of three detained sons in this district:

“Three of my sons were detained without any crime, one of them was working abroad two years before the accident date, the other son go after him, but we was surprised on 5\4\2005 that they are arrested and detained after brought back to Egypt, at dawn of the same day our street was blockaded fully by armed men -then those men entered our houses and frisked us. They insulted us a lot and stroked us without any respect for the house privacy or any tacking into account that there are children, when we asked them about their entity and the cause of their actions?

They just said to us that they are of the security body and that we are required for investigation.

They already lead us amongst our neighbors and people in our district in a very humiliating manner which can not described with words-to the security body headquarters in Shobra - after we left our children wanderers in the street. Although I am an old woman about 70 years old and my daughter is pregnant and have health problems and the women of my three sons have suckling babies, we remained arrested for about two weeks. One of my three sons still arrested and the others were accused in case N.9 of 2006 high martial security body felonies.

She continued …. Security body headquarters means to us a room not more than 9 meters in which there are more than 30 people … threatening and panic …all means of torture even electricity …questions which we do not know its answers but we are forced to answer it even with false answers for fear that the officers may execute their threatening-which after all - we are not saved of.

Now our life is destroyed, our neighbors and relatives break away from us for fear of us , we became a suspicious, our reputation is defamed , lose our sustainer, our sons became wanderers, we became very ill and poor….all these do not beg the officers mercy as we wait in any time for they call-we the women- to repeat the scene again”

This was one of the life witnesses which record some actions of arresting and detention done in this case.

Although numbers of detained peoples exceeds 2500 detainee but those who are trailed and accused were just 14 people, who are:

1-Tarek Ahmed Al Saeed.

2- Mohamed Yosre Yaseen.

3-Akram Fawzy Foaad.

4-Saied Ibraheem Mohamed Abd El Rahman.

5-Gamal Ahmed Abd El Aal Mohamed.

6-Reda Saeed Ahmed Ibraheem.

7-Tamer Yosre Yaseen.

8-Ashraf Saied Zain El Aabedeen.

9-Rame Mohamed Gaber Mohamed Al Arabi.

10-Salah Ibraheem Mohamed Abd El Rahman.

11-Tamer Abd El Salam Fahmi Hasan Nono.

12-Mohamed Fecre Abd El Azeem.

13-Seham Qamar El Zaman Mohamed Ali “its nick name is Om Mahmood “

14-Zainab Karem Mahmood Mohamed ”its nick name is Jilaan”.

So it is assumed that as the Attorney General moved issue N.9 of 2006 high martial security body felonies and determined the accused - Ministry of Interior has to release all detainees of this issue who has no defined accusations, especially as it is an execution of many judgments issued to release them. Minister of Interior’s exceeds to judiciary respect and its insistence to issue new and repeated detention reports make these judgments executed just on papers, and the result is those detainees’ remaining before jails and detention camps bars till now without accusation.

The matter which is a direct violation of all there rights provided by the Egyptian constitution.

The defense in Al Azhar explosions case focused on that all accused people were tortured to confess, and they are arrested before the accident, which is confirmed by witnesses.

This case with all its vague conditions accompanied with many actions which represent violation to rights and freedoms provided by international charters, starting with haphazard detention and arrest processes, the investigation which accompanied with torture to force the accused people and detainee to confess -as accused people and eye witnesses said-the last of these violations is the trail of 14 accused before a martial court formed after the crime, the legality of this court derived from the continuing application of martial law in Egypt for more than quarter century.

Finally in 20\8\2007 the court judgment issued in this case was ; life imprisonment for: Tarek Ahmed El Saeed Ali, Mohamed Yosre Yaseen Ali, Akram Faozy Foaad, Saeed Ibraheem Mohamed Abd El Rahman, and 10 years imprisonment for: Mohamed Yosre Yaseen, Tamer Abd El Salam Fahmy, and sever 3years imprisonment for Mohamed Fecry Abd El Azeem, and penal servitude for year for: Ashraf Saieed Zain El Abdeen, Ramy Mohamed Gaber with fifteen LE fine for both of them, and the acquittal of Tamer Yosry Yaseen, Salah Ibraheem Abd El Rahman, Seham Qamar El Zaman, Zainab Karem Mahmood, and delaying the judgment of Reda Saeed Ahmed until 20\11\2007 because pf his health conditions.

The courts’ file of Al Azhar explosions case ended by the security body’s court judgment, but the other parts of this file still open as the detainees of this accident still before jails and detention camps walls till now. Those detainees even if they did not trailed officially before martial court, they trailed practically and the sentence of their judgment is:

Waste their life and reputation- drive away their children- continuing their detention without crime until this moment.

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