DECISION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS ON ADMISSIBILITY COMMUNICATION 627/16: ESSAM AHMED MAHMOUD EL-HADDAD (REPRESENTED BY ABDULLAH AHMAD MOHAMMAD AL-HADDAD AND THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS) V. THE ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT SUMMARY OF THE COMPLAINT 1. The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the Secretariat) received the Complaint on 04 April 2016 from Abdullah Ahmad Mohammad Al-Haddad, the son of the Victim." and Alliance for Human Rights (AED) (the Complainants), brought on behalf of Mr. Essam Ahmed Mahmoud El-Haddad (the Victim). 2. The Complaint is submitted against the Arab Republic of Egypt (the Respondent State), a State Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Charter}? 3. The Complainants submit the Victim is an Egyptian national who was born in 1954. It is submitted that the Victim was working as the assistant to the President-elect, Mohammed Morsi, when he was forcibly disappeared from his workplace on 03 July 2013, the same day the military coup took place. The Complainants submit that no one knew of the Victim's whereabouts for a period of one hundred and sixty-four (164) days, and further submit that his family later learnt that he was detained in the Republican Guard club. 4. The Complainants submit that the Victim was detained without investigation, without authorisation from the Public Prosecutor and without being charged. 5. The Complainants aver that the Victim did not know of the charge fabricated against him" on "the issue of communicating with the Gaza Strip in Palestine," and further that the Public Prosecution" did not check with him on this issue or other issues." The Complainants aver that the Victim found himself on trial for" trumped up charges" which he did not know anything about. U 6. The Complainants submit that the case fabricated against the Victim is the following: "communicate with the elected government of Palestine in order to" perpetrate "terrorist acts in Egypt, the aim of the fall of Egypt."3 Letter from the Complainant, 19 May 2016 Egypt ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Charter) on 20 March 1984 3 Letter from the Complainant, 19 May I 2 }:0r<f{.i:"-;-;~, ~•• ', ~EC;iEr:J1;}4>':\ '.; I i ,<i,;;~;·'\i, . .;> ~.:( J" -'Ill .iJ/ .~:-;/ <s..>: