It will be a week on 29 August since the father of well-known Egyptian journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada was arrested by security forces. The International Federation of journalists (IFJ) urges Egyptian authorities to release Gamal Abdel Hamid Ziada and stop intimidating the press.
Sayed el-Agez's whereabouts were unknown to his lawyers and family for two weeks. He resurfaced in Egypt this week facing terrorism charges. A second man is still missing
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi granted presidential pardons to rights attorney Mohamed El-Baqer and researcher Patrick George Zaki, among others, on 19 July, announced the Presidential Pardon Committee according to Ahram Online. The news comes just one day after it was announced that Zaki was sentenced to three years in prison under the accusations of spreading