Ahmed Al-Tantawi’s campaign manager was released hours after his arrest

Today, Tuesday, the East Cairo Public Prosecution Office released Muhammad Abu Al-Diyar, a campaign manager Former presidential candidate Ahmed Al-Tantawi, hours after his arrest, according to lawyer Nabih Al-Janadi, and this came after procedures were taken to appeal his detention in absentia ruling, and a session was set for next June 3 to consider the case.

And it was Egyptian security forces It implemented the decision of the Matareya Misdemeanor Court of Appeal, issued yesterday, Monday, upholding the ruling issued against Former presidential candidate Ahmed Al-Tantawi, his campaign manager, lawyer Muhammad Abu Al-Diyar, and 21 of Al-Tantawi’s supporters, were sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 20,000 pounds, which resulted in Al-Tantawi being arrested in court, according to what human rights lawyers and civil society organizations announced. At dawn on Tuesday, security forces arrested Tantawi’s campaign manager, lawyer Abu Al-Diyar, from his home.

The Matareya Misdemeanor Court had issued its ruling against Al-Tantawi on February 6, 2024, and the execution was suspended until appeal pending case No. 16336 of 2023 for Matareya misdemeanors, known in the media as the “Public Agencies Case.”

It is worth noting that Muhammad Abu Al-Diyar did not attend the Court of Appeal session yesterday, nor did his lawyer attend. Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali said that Abu Al-Diyar’s defense will push the appeal against the ruling issued against him yesterday, Monday.

The events of the case go back to the campaign of presidential candidate Ahmed Tantawi having to collect… Popular agencies Parallel to the security restrictions faced by his supporters as a result of their attempt to collect official proxies, starting from attacking him/her until they were arrested and included in political lawsuits, which forced Al-Tantawi to retreat and ask his campaign members and supporters to stop printing and collecting popular proxies after members of the campaign were arrested out of fear. Increase in the number of arrests.

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Human rights organizations condemned the campaign to target Tantawi’s supporters and include them in a political case. The organizations denounced what they described as “a series of security attacks against Tantawi’s campaign, shortly after he announced his intention to run in the presidential election.”