Communication 614/16 - Mr. Eid Mohammed Ismil Dahrooj and two others
(represented by AED and 4 others) 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 from AED and ors (the
Complainants) on behalf of the First Victim, Mr. Eid Mohammed Ismil Dahrooj,
the Second Victim, Mr. Abdul Rahman Eid
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Third Victim, Mr. Salah Eid Mohamm
Republic of Egypt (the Respondent State).1
2. The Complainants aver that the S
First Victim.
3.
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represent them in this case.
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of Egyptians through killing, enforced
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5. The Complainants also claim that the Authorities violated freedom of thinking,
especially that
niversity lecturers, and generally turned Egypt into a large
prison to terrify the Egyptian people, through lawlessness and in blatant breach
of international human rights law.
6.
More specifically, the Complainants allege that the family of the Victims is one of
several families that suffered at the hands of the Authorities after the coup. They
aver that the First Victim, who is an Egyptian national, was born in 1949 in
Alexandria City, Egypt, and worked as General Manager of financial and
1 The Arab Republic of Egypt ratified the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on 20 March 1984.