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Counsellor
Mohamed Shawky Ayyad 
Office of the Public Prosecutor
Madinat al-Rehab 
Cairo
Ägypten

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Tortured by electric shocks

Dear Counsellor,
according to a report more than twelve members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light have been detained in Egypt since March 2025. In the meantime the Supreme State Security Prosecution accused them of „joining a group established in violation of the constitution and the law“.
While in custody Omar Mahmoud Abdel Maguid and Hazem Saied Abdel Moatamed were tortured by electric shocks to their genitals and severely injured by officers of the National Security Agency. Another member of the religious minority, Hussein Mohamed Al-Tenawi, was also tortured, and his state of health has significantly worsened during his arrest.
Human rights organization Amnesty International describes the conditions of detention as „extremely harsh“; so the men stay in cold cells and receive only a few spoons of rice and pieces of bread per day.
In all courtesy I urge you to immediately and unconditionally release Hussein Mohammed Al-Tenawi, Omar Mahmoud Abdel Maguid, Hazem Saied Abdel Moatamed and all other members of the Ahmadi minority who have been arbitrarily detained solely for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief!
Pending their release, they must be granted regular access to their lawyers and to adequate food and healthcare, including in outside hospitals if necessary, and be held in conditions that comply with international standards for the treatment of prisoners.
Finally I call for prompt, independent and impartial investigations into the allegations of torture and other ill-treatment in custody – and for an end of prosecuting Ahmadi believers solely for peacefully exercising their faith.
Respectfully!