On April 1, 2023, EFHR monitored that the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) imprisoned the citizen Amer Abdel-Harith Mahmoud Muhammad (45 years old – hotel coordinator in Kuwait) for 15 days pending case No. 392/2023 on accusations of joining and financing a terrorist group and spreading false news.
Amer Abdel-Harith was arrested on March 28, 2023, from Kuwait. Then he was handed over to the Kuwaiti State Security agency, where he was interrogated for sharing posts criticizing the economic and political situation in Egypt on his Facebook account. Then Amer was deported to Egypt on March 29, 2023, and detained inside Cairo Airport until he appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution.