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Ahmed Samir Santawy is a master’s student at Central European University (Austria), whose research focuses on the history of female reproductive rights in Egypt.
Ahmed has been arrested by the Egyptian authorities in Cairo during a home visit on February 1 and was accused of “joining a terrorist organization”, “financing a terrorist organization” and “spreading false news on social media”. The allegations are unfounded and he is now in pre-trial detention, extended three times without legal representation. The case is dramatically similar to those of other international researchers and students persecuted and unjustly imprisoned by the Egyptian authorities, such as Patrick George Zaki and Walid al-Shobaky.