Statement by CEU President and Rector Shalini Randeria on the Exoneration of Our Student Ahmed Samir Santawy.
Ahmed Samir Santawy has been released!
July 30, 2022: Freedom day! Our student Ahmed Samir Santawy has been released. We rejoice with Ahmed, his family, and his partner @YildizSouheila and all who supported him during these difficult times. Ahmed, we can’t wait to #SeeUatCEU in Vienna for the beginning of term!
#freeahmedsamir #ahmedsamirsantawy #free_ahmed_samir
July 4, 2022
Statement by CEU President and Rector Shalini Randeria Regarding the Conviction of Our Student Ahmed Samir Santawy
May 10, 2022
Ahmed Samir's trial was again adjourned to 6/6/22. It doesn't matter how many times Ahmed's trial is adjourned. We stay tuned and will not let up! Stand up for him and demand his immediate release.
March 27, 2022
Help us advocate for Ahmed Samir Santawy!
Ahmed Samir is a scholar unjustly imprisoned in Egypt for studying women's reproductive rights. We are putting together a video project to show support for Ahmed and to advocate for his freedom! Thread: pic.twitter.com/06LyWAl5nS
March 14, 2022
Today, the Egyptian Emergency State Security Court (ESSC) will hold a second session in the retrial of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy. The undersigned organizations call on Egyptian authorities to drop this case and release Santawy immediately.
February 21, 2022
The only appropriate course of action for the authorities in #Egypt is to quash Ahmed Samir's conviction and sentence immediately.
February 21, 2022
#ahmedsamirsantawy concerns us all! The student of CEU Vienna was unjustly imprisoned because he researches women's rights in Europe. He believes in Europe and the freedom of scholarship. we stand behind him!
February 21, 2022
CEU Senate statement on the occasion of CEU Master's student Ahmed Samir Santawy's retrial while still imprisoned in Egypt.
February 16, 2022
Amnesty International Belgium's protests against the visit of Al-Sisi to Belgium.
February 11, 2022
The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights welcome the favorable opinion by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention finding the Egyptian government arbitrarily detained our client Ahmed Samir Santawy in violation of international human rights law. The Working Group held that the government arbitrarily deprived Santawy of his liberty without a legal basis consistent with international human rights standards, violated his rights to a fair trial by denying them access to their lawyers and were discriminatory against Santawy becasue...
February 6, 2022
The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) presents a detailed reading of Case 774 of 2021 (Emergency State Security Misdemeanour Court in the First Settlement), registered under No. 877 of 2021 (Supreme State Security), in which the Emergency Supreme State Security Court sentenced researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of 500 pounds on charges of publishing false news on a Facebook account attributed to him. This paper analyzes the available official papers of the case, in light of the relevant legislation. It also explains...
February 1, 2022
Today is the anniversary of Ahmed Samir Santawy’s arrest and the postponement of Patrick George Zaki’s trial. We call on #Egypt to secure their release and allow them to fly back to Europe so they may resume their education.
February 1, 2022
Today, February 1, marks one year since Egyptian @CEU student & researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy was arrested by authorities. It's been 224 days since Ahmed was sentenced to 4 years in prison by an emergency state security court, for which there is no judicial appeal.
February 1, 2022
It is 1 year that #AhmedSamir, a student of @ceu Vienna, was unjustly imprisoned in #Egypt. Today supporters drew attention to his case in front of the #Egyptian Embassy in #Vienna.
February 1, 2022
One year ago, researcher and master's student #AhmedSamirSantawy was arrested, CIHRS renews its demand for his immediate release and all prisoners of conscience, and to stop the ongoing security campaigns against the Egyptian academic community.
January 31, 2022
Egyptian researcher, Ahmed Samir Santawy, was sentenced to 4 years in prison by an emergency court because of social media posts. He was arrested in Feb 2021 shortly after his return from Vienna where he was studying. Call on @AlsisiOfficial
to #QuashTheVerdict & release him.
January 30, 2022
Ahmed Samir Santawy is serving a 4 year prison sentence in #Egypt when he should be at @ceu continuing his studies in #WomensRights. Join us in calling @AlsisiOfficial to #QuashTheVerdict.
January 28, 2022
PEN International calls on President Al-Sisi to immediately #QuashTheVerdicts issued against Ahmed Samir Santawy, Hisham Fouad, Houssam Moanis, Zyad El-Elaimy, Alaa Abdel Fattah, Mohamed El-Baqer and Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan “Oxygen.”
January 27, 2022
Since June 2021, Egypt’s emergency state security courts have handed down unjust verdicts to seven human rights defenders and activists. The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy and 64 civil society organizations from around the world have issued a statement calling on Egyptian President Abdul Fattah El-Sisi to immediately quash these verdicts.
January 25, 2022
On the International Day for Education, we would like to emphasize our commitment to free and open access to higher education.
December 30, 2021
We call on @AlsisiOfficial to quash the 4-year prison sentence against Ahmed Samir Santawy and secure his immediate release. Mr. Santawy should be at @ceu continuing his important academic studies, not behind bars. #FreeAhmed
December 10, 2021
Ahmed Samir Santawy, a researcher at CEU in Vienna who returned to Egypt to visit his parents, was arrested and sentenced without reason to 4 years in prison. His only hope is the intervention of diplomacy so that he may be granted pardon. Free him.
December 7, 2021
In June 2021, Ahmed Samir Santawy was unjustly sentenced to four (!) years in prison. He has not been at the university in Vienna for 44 weeks and 2 days, but is in prison. His condition is bad. To the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Please ensure his #release!
November 30, 2021
A short video by the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression
November 3, 2021
Interesting exchange with the President & Rector of @ceu in Vienna @ShaliniRanderia.