by The Associated Press
Last Updated Mar 4, 2021 at 12:39 pm ADT
CAIRO Amnesty International urged on Thursday Egyptian authorities to release a 29-year-old mother from custody after she went missing nearly two years ago together with her husband and toddler in what the group says was an act of forced disappearance.
According to a statement by the London-based watchdog, university teacher Manar Adel Abu el-Naga, her husband Omar Abdelhamid Abu el-Naga and their one-year-old son were taken by security agents from their home in the city of Alexandria in March 2019.
Their whereabouts remained unknown until she appeared in February before Egypt’s Supreme State Security prosecutors who ordered her pre-trial detention over terror charges. Amnesty demanded Egyptian authorities conduct an immediate investigation into the matter.