Egyptian
''Egyptian'' describes something of, from, or related to Egypt.
Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
Nations and ethnic groups
* Egyptians, a national group in North Africa
** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of year ...
activist
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,
Islamic
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thinker,
physician
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, and researcher in
comparative religion
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.
Career
He came into limelight after his call for a protest near Al-Nour Mosque in
Abbassia
Abbassia ( ) is a neighbourhood that makes up five shiakhas (census blocks) in al-Wayli district in Cairo, Egypt.
The Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is located in Abbassia. The medical faculty of Ain Shams University and its aff ...
in the events of Kamilia Shehata. After the January 25 revolution in the Egyptian media, as one of the participants in the revolution, he appeared frequently in political programs and television debates as a representative of the Islamic movement, especially the
Salafist
The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a fundamentalist revival movement within Sunni Islam, originating in the late 19th century and influential in the Islamic world to this day. The name "''Salafiyya''" is a self-designation, claiming a retur ...
.
In May 2013, Abu al-Bukhari said that he had been harassed by
State Security Investigations Service
The State Security Investigations Service ( ) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 personnel, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Egypt's Ministry of Interior (Egypt), ...
, and he stated that they were returning by violence, and that some officers of the dissolved State Security Service had threatened a number of symbols of the Islamic movement. He called for demonstrations against them. He organized a demonstration next to the State Security building in
Nasr City
Nasr City ( ) forms two of the nine districts of the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is administratively divided into Nasr City West/One ''(Gharb Madinet Nasr/awwal),'' and Nasr City East/Two (''Sharq Madinet Nasr/thani''). In 2021, Nasr C ...
on May 2, 2013.
After the overthrow of former President
Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-AyyatThe spellings of his first and last names vary. survey of 14 news organizations plus Wikipedia in July 2012Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in, and after the
August 2013 Rabaa massacre
On 14 August 2013, the Egyptian police (and to a lesser extent the armed forces), under the command of then-Defense Minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, used lethal force to “disperse” two camps of protesters in Cairo: one at al-Nahda Square and ...
he was arrested at about nine in the morning, and was shot in the face by security forces. The news of his death spread, and at about six o'clock in the evening, the security forces came to the Health Insurance Hospital. They arrested him from inside the hospital again, and it was confirmed that he was being held at the State Security headquarters in
Nasr City
Nasr City ( ) forms two of the nine districts of the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is administratively divided into Nasr City West/One ''(Gharb Madinet Nasr/awwal),'' and Nasr City East/Two (''Sharq Madinet Nasr/thani''). In 2021, Nasr C ...
, despite his injury.
The Egyptian Public Prosecution office declared that he was alive and ordered his detention for 15 days. He was sent to
Scorpion Prison
The Al-Aqrab Prison (; official name Tora Prison 992 Maximum-Security) is a supermax prison in Helwan, Egypt, south of Cairo. It is used for political prisoners and opponents of the Egyptian government, who include Muslim Brotherhood and April ...
. In February 2016, the State Security Investigations Service's investigations published the accusation of Hussam Abu Al-Bukhari, along with Sayed Mashagheb, founder of the Ultras White Knights Association, Khaled Harbi, the director of the Islamic Observatory, and 19 others, of inciting and calling for the attack on the
State Security Investigations Service
The State Security Investigations Service ( ) was the highest national internal security authority in Egypt. Estimated to employ 100,000 personnel, the SSI was the main security and intelligence apparatus of Egypt's Ministry of Interior (Egypt), ...
building on May 2, 2013. In October 2017, the Supreme State Security Court sentenced Hussam Abu al-Bukhari to 10 years in prison, and acquitted Sayed Mashagheb and Khaled Harbi.