Cairo – Yesterday, Monday evening, the Egyptian authorities released the poet Khaled Said after a 3-year detention on charges of “joining a banned group and inciting protests”, because of his poem entitled “Long live Egypt and long live Egypt.”
The head of the Constitution Party, Alaa El-Khayyam, said that the poet Khaled Saeed is now at his home, after completing the procedures for his release, in a post on the social networking site “Facebook”.
AndIn July 2017Security forces arrested the poet Khaled Saeed at his home in the Maadi area, south of Cairo, because of his recent poem, “Long Live Egypt,” in which he criticized the political and economic conditions. A decision to release him on bail, to be re-arrested in 2018.
This comes at a time when a member of the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights, Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat, stated that the judicial authorities and the Public Prosecution are currently examining the cases of detainees in pretrial detention, in preparation for the release of a number of them within a few days.
Sadat, who heads the Reform and Development Party, added – in a tweet on Monday – that this comes within the framework of activating the national strategy for human rights.
In a previous interview with Al-Jazeera Net, Sadat said that the releases of some prisoners of conscience come within the framework of what he described as the new general trend of the state, indicating that “there will be great openness, and reforms during the coming period in the file of political rights and freedoms, but this will happen gradually and gradually. “.
Two days ago, the Egyptian authorities decided to release the Coptic activist, head of the Maspero Youth Foundation, Ramy Kamel, and also released the political and human rights activist Ramy Shaath, who traveled directly to Paris, and his family said – in a statement on the communication sites – that the release came after Rami gave up his citizenship. Egyptian.
Two days ago, human rights organizations said that the Cairo Criminal Court – the Fourth Circuit of terrorism, decided to release 15 women with precautionary measures, in connection with the state security case since 2019, and mentioned the names of the women.