Case/cases info

• Charges: “joining a terrorist group,” “funding a terrorist group,” “disseminating false news undermining national security,” and “using social media to commit a publishing offense” in Case No. 1356/2019.
• On 29 September 2019 El Baker was physically assaulted by police forces when he arrived to Tora Prison, in practice known as the “Reception” or “Tashrifa”.
• on 30 August 2020, El-Baker was brought in for questioning and added to Case No. 855/2020 on nearly identical charges, in a practice by Egyptian authorities commonly known as ‘’rotation.’’
• on 23 November 2020, the Official Gazette published the decision of the Cairo Criminal Court to include El-Baker on the “terrorists list” for five years as a part of an entirely different case, No. 1781/2019.  As a result of this designation, El-Baker is subject to a travel ban, his assets are frozen, and he is prohibited from engaging in political or civic work for five years. In all three cases, El-Baker has been denied due process, including the right to present a defense and challenge the lawfulness of his detention, or in Case No. 1781/2019, even be informed that he was under investigation.
• On 20 December 2021 Emergency State Security Misdemeanors Court sentenced Mohamed El-Baker to 4 years in prison for “spreading false news using a social networking site” in Case No. 1228/2021.