Communication 615/16 - Medhat Mohammed Bahieddin Ahmed (represented by the
Organization of European Alliance for Human Rights and Ors) v Arab Republic of
Egypt
Summary of the Complaint
1.
The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the
Secretariat) received a Complaint on 31 March 2016 on behalf of Mr. Medhat
Mohammed Bahieddin Ahmed (the Victim), fro’
opean Alliance and others
(the Complainants).
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orced disappearances, torture
omen and children’s rights
ed
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7.
human rights violations were
and falsification of allegations
pressurize them to discontinue
“ Authorities deprived people of their
ing especially that of university lecturers
stormed the house of the Victim, an Egyptian national, born in 1972, who is an
English teacher. dyey allegedly broke all the household furniture and kidnapped
him.
The Complainants allege that the Victim was in hiding from 07 February 2016
until 14 February 2016 and no one knew about his whereabouts. It avers that the
Victim’s family made efforts to look for him and did not find him until the
security forces presented him to them in a hyped state. Thereafter, investigations
were initiated and the Victim did not have access to a lawyer. On 24 February
The Republic of Egypt ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on 20 March, 1984
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