Admissibility Decision of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Communication 670/17 - Fadhl Al Mawla Husni Ahmed Ismail and 19 Ors
(represented by Freedom and Justice Party of Egypt) 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 21 November 2017 from the Freedom and Justice
Party of Egypt (the Complainant), on behalf of Fadhl Al Maw a Husni Ahmed Ismail and
nineteen Others (the Victims}.'
2.
The Complaint is submitted against the Arab Republic of Egypt (Respondent State), a
State Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (the African Charter)."
3.
The
Complainant
submits
that the
twenty
Victims
were
sentenced
to
death
in five
different cases before the Egyptian Courts. The Complainant alleges that the Victims have
no further right of appeal and that four of these Victims were tried in absentia. According
to the Complainant, the sixteen Victims who are in custody face imminent execution, and
the lives and well-being of the Victims, their families and their lawyers are at imminent
risk due to the proceedings in Egypt.
4.
The first case relates to the upholding on 07 June 2017 by the Court of Cassation, the
highest appellate court in Egypt, of the death sentence verdict of six of the Victims who
were.accu ed of murdering Sergeant Abdullah Metwally (the Metwally case), a house
guard of one of the judges on the panel of former President Mohamed Morsi's trial. The
death sentence was originally imposed on the six Victims by the Criminal Court on 07
September 2015 for establishing and joining a terrorist group, providing the group with
weapons and money and murdering Sergeant Metwally.
5.
The Complainant alleges that the six Victims were disappeared for periods ranging from
three days to three months, were denied legal representation, access to their families and
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Alexandria
protest killing case:
Fadhl Al
Mawla
Husni Ahmed
Ismail;
Kafr Al
Sheikh bombing case: Ahmed Abd Al
Hadi
Mohammed Al Sehimy; Sameh Abdullah Mohammed Yousif; Lutfi Ibrahim Ismail Khalil; Ahmed Abd Al Mon'em Salama Ali
Salama; Ahmad Al Sayed Abd Al Hamid Mansour; Fakih Abd Al Latif Radwan Al Agmi; Sa mah Ahmed Mohammed Abu Shaer;
Metwally case: Ahmed Waleed Meshaly; Mahmoud Mamdouh Wah bah; Bassem Mohsen Al Khereby; Ibrahim Yahya Azzab;
Abdalrahman Attiya;
Mohammed Adel
Kahled
Hamed
Raf at Gad Askar; Qatar espionage case:
Keilani;
Rabaa
Ahmed Ali Abdo Afifi; Ahmed
Ismail Thabet Ismail;
Dispersal case: Waleed Al Sayed Habeeb; Vasser Al Asasir Abd Al Mon'em Ismail;
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Vasser Abd Al Samad Mohammed Abd Al Fattah Shukur.
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