lawyer
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. He was born in 1993. He worked as a lawyer and a founding member of the Constitution Party and one of the party's young leaders.
Early life
Hussein was born in 1993 in one of the
villages
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Faculty of Law
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at the
University
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of
Banha
Banha ( ) is the capital of the Qalyubiyya Governorate in north-eastern Egypt. Between the capital of Cairo and the city of Tanta, Banha is an important transport hub, as rail lines from Cairo to various cities in the Nile Delta pass through it ...
in 2016. He joined the
Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights
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as a
human rights lawyer
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.
Political activism
Hussein participated in the establishment of the
Constitution Party (Egypt)
The Constitution Party () is a political party in Egypt. Founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammad ElBaradei in 2012, it aims to protect and promote the principles and objectives of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, according to liberal ide ...
in 2012 and was one of its founding members and held several positions within the party within his province in Qalyubiya until he assumed the position of Assistant Secretary of the Committee on Rights and Freedoms Party from 2015 until now and participated in the establishment of the popular campaign to support
Khaled Ali
Khaled Ali (also spelled Khaled Aly; , ; born 26 February 1972) is an Egyptian lawyer and activist. He is known for his advocacy for reform of government and private sector corruption and for promoting social justice and labor rights. He is th ...
President of Egypt 2014 until withdrawal
Khalid Ali
Khalid Ali (born March 24, 1981) is an Emirati football defender who played for United Arab Emirates at the 2004 AFC Asian Cup
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because of the political situation and the suppression of freedoms participated in the popular campaign to support
Khalid Ali
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President of Egypt
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in 2018 until the withdrawal of
Khaled Ali
Khaled Ali (also spelled Khaled Aly; , ; born 26 February 1972) is an Egyptian lawyer and activist. He is known for his advocacy for reform of government and private sector corruption and for promoting social justice and labor rights. He is th ...
because of the closure of the public sphere and the arrest of presidential candidates
The period of
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 2012January revolution until he was
arrested
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in one of the demonstrations of the revolutionary forces in front of the Guidance Office in 2013 and a charge of demonstrations and rallies and an attempt to overthrow the
regime
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and was evacuated after four days in custody pending investigations and was acquitted and appealed to the prosecution on the ruling The Court of Cassation revoked a three-year appeal
court
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in absentia until it appealed against the verdict and again acquitted it in 2016
Period of Transitional President
Adly Mansour
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Was arrested renewed in demonstrations of the
revolutionary
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forces in
Maadi
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in 2014 to demand the achievement of the objectives of the January
revolution
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and condemn the violations and the dismantling of sit-ins in a brutal manner and the issuance of the law of
protest
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and that time faced charges of demonstration and gathering and belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and became Tarek in that period directed The Maadi Misdemeanor Court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment and two years until he was acquitted of a second-degree
court
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after three years in
prison
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for more than three
months
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.
Arrest and trial
President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi signed the agreement on the demarcation of the maritime border with
Saudi Arabia
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in 2016. He was
arrested
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along with several activists after he ratified the parliament's approval of the agreement on charges of incitement to protest against the ratification of the Tiran and Sanafir Agreement. Of the Public Prosecution on bail of 2000 Egyptian pounds The Egyptian Interior Ministry then suspended the decision to vacate the case by claiming criminal cases against him. A group of
activists
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set up an electronic petition on the Avaz website to demand that the Interior Ministry release him. Tarek sent several letters to the head of the lawyers' lawyer Sameh Ashour from inside his prison and after presenting The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) demanded that the Egyptian authorities release him and allow his
lawyer
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to see him. The International Federation for
Human Rights
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(FIDH)
Release
On 27 July, after more than 42 days of arbitrary detention, the Ministry of the Interior released him from the Khanka police station and
Amnesty International
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and the International Federation for
Human Rights
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issued a statement welcoming his release. To interview him about the violations committed in Egyptian prisons, including the
Guardian
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, where he conducted a dialogue with him
torture
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in Egyptian
prisons
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." and translated by
BBC
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