Number of days CEU student Ahmed Samir Santawy has spent in an Egyptian prison.
178
No evidence has been put forward to support the charges made against him.
CEU stands with
Ahmed Samir Santawy
CEU MA student Ahmed Samir Santawy was arrested in Cairo on February 1, 2021. On February 6, Ahmed was charged with belonging to a terrorist organization and spreading false news on social media. He is currently remanded in the notorious Tora Prison, without a hearing or any legal representation.
CEU condemns this denial of our student’s right to a fair hearing and calls on the Egyptian authorities to grant Ahmed immediate access to legal counsel and to his family. We have no evidence that would support the charges against Ahmed and call for his immediate release.
We encourage universities and institutes of higher education in Austria, Europe and around the world, as well as students' associations and colleagues everywhere to join us in calling for Ahmed’s immediate release.
#free_ahmed_samir #freeahmedsamir #ahmedsamirsantawy
July 12, 2021
Since the 1st of February 2021, Ahmed Samir Santawy, a Central European University (CEU) student in Austria, has been arbitrarily detained by the Egyptian Security Forces. Since the beginning, the European Students’ Union and the Global Student Forum have been following the case in order to support the campaigners of the #FreeAhmedSamir movement and the international human rights organisations in their efforts to achieve his release.
July 12, 2021
AFTE calls on the National Council for Human Rights to appeal to the President to cancel the prison sentence handed down to researcher #AhmedSamirSantawy according to the legal powers granted to the President under the state of emergency.#FreeAhmedSamir https://t.co/7KDegiH3en
July 12, 2021
Twenty days passed on #AhmedSamirSantawy's hunger strike objecting to the court sentence.Every day on strike reduces the chances of survival.#FreeAhmedSamir pic.twitter.com/JOCS499BYu
July 11, 2021
19 days since #AhmedSamirSantawy went on a hunger strike to protest the verdict against him. He was transferred to a room under medical supervision in the prison after his condition deteriorated.We stand in solidarity with him and demand his immediate release.#FreeAhmedSamir pic.twitter.com/3BUH2HszUX
July 4, 2021
Today, Ahmed Samir Santawy is turning 30 while imprisoned in Egypt and on a hunger strike. We call on @AlsisiOfficial to quash the four-year prison sentence against Mr. Santawy and secure his immediate release so he can resume his studies at @ceu. #FreeAhmedSamir
June 30, 2021
Today my colleague Niki Kunrath and I again requested the immediate release of Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali in the municipal council. Ahmed Samir was sentenced to 4 years in prison a few days ago and has since been on a hunger strike.
It is our responsibility as upstanding democrats to do everything in our power so that Ahmed can return to Vienna!
June 29, 2021
Imprisoned student Ahmed Samir Santawy began a hunger strike last week to protest a 4-year sentence in jail.
June 28, 2021
"I'm not a criminal: either I get out of here or I die" - Ahmed Samir Santawy's desperate words break my heart and leave me indignant. He, like Zaki, are victims of a regime (the Egyptian) that does not stop violating human rights. Remaining silent means being complicit!
June 23, 2021
The undersigned rights organizations condemn the sentencing of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison, on 22 June, by the Emergency Supreme State Security Court in Case no. 774 of 2021.
June 23, 2021
The sentence is against academic #freedom and against freedom of expression!
We Condemn the Decision of the Egyptian Court Sentencing Ahmed Samir Santawy to 4 Years Imprisonment
June 23, 2021
We condemn the decision of the Egyptian Court sentencing #AhmedSamirSantawy to 4 yrs imprisonment. With no right to appeal, this decision blatantly denies the basic rights of due process and freedom of expression. #FreeAhmedSamir https://t.co/1ostUuTXe0
June 23, 2021
We denounce today's verdict sentencing Egyptian student researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to 4 years in prison on a baseless false news charge. The Cairo court's verdict against Santawy is an assault on #FreeExpression worldwide. #Free_Ahmed_Samir https://t.co/TYO3Lh92Cz
June 22, 2021
“It is outrageous that Ahmed Samir Santawy was sentenced to four years behind bars following a flawed conviction on entirely spurious grounds by a special state security court. His conviction is based solely on social media posts criticizing human rights violations in Egyptian prisons and the state’s mishandling of the pandemic, which he has, in any case, denied writing."
June 22, 2021
Ahmed Samir Santawy was sentenced to four years in prison in Egypt for spreading false news. The verdict is blatantly unjust. We will keep fighting for him.
June 21, 2021
Meet the prisoner of conscience, researcher, and @ceu master's student #AhmedSamirSantawy, who is being held on unjustified charges. Santawy will be tried tomorrow, Tuesday, June 22.
June 16, 2021
We filed a joint petition before the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention @UNHumanRights with @AFTEEgypt on behalf of Ahmed Samir Santawy, a @CEU student detained by Egyptian Authorities since 2/1/21 on alleged terrorism charges.
June 2, 2021
We condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy a master’s student at @ceu to the urgent trial before the Emergency Supreme State Security Court. and we demand closing this case and releasing Santawy immediately so that he can resume his studieshttps://t.co/2KwuuqVu9q
June 1, 2021
The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), to the urgent trial before the Emergency Supreme State Security Court, in Case 774/2021. The undersigned organizations demand closing this case, and releasing Santawy immediately, so that he can resume his studies.
May 28, 2021
The undersigned organizations condemn new criminal investigations against researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy and his ongoing arbitrary detention, which stems from his academic work on women’s sexual and reproductive rights. We are alarmed by reports that Ahmed Samir Santawy had been subjected to beatings in prison and call on the authorities to open prompt and effective investigations. We also urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Ahmed Samir Santawy, and to allow him to travel to continue his master’s studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Austria.
May 20, 2021
The defense committee of #AhmedSamirSantawy has submitted a request last week to the SSSP demanding his release, and they haven't received any response yet.
May 13, 2021
The Academic Senate of Faculty of Arts, Charles University (CUFA), during its meeting on May 13, 2021 discussed the situation of Ahmed Samir Santawy, a student of the Central European University, who is being detained by Egyptian authorities on questionable charges. The members of the Senate would like to express their concern regarding this situation and as a token of their solidarity with Ahmed Samir Santawy they adopted the following resolution:
May 12, 2021
Yesterday was 100 days after the arrest of Ahmed Samir Santawy, a researcher in Vienna, arrested in Egypt after returning to visit his parents. He has been blindfolded, beaten, held in solitary confinement, still has no access to his lawyers.
Free him.
May 11, 2021
Installation on CEU's Vienna campus marks the absence of the student held in Egyptian prison.
May 11, 2021
It has been 100 days since the arrest of Ahmed Samir, a free boy who came to study in Europe just like Patrick Zaki and was arrested with absurd charges on his return to Egypt.
April 28, 2021
The Háttér Society also demands the release of Ahmed Samir Santawy.
Ahmed Samir Santawy, a researcher at CEU and a master's student in social anthropology, is being arbitrarily detained by Egyptian authorities for his research and study of women's rights, including the history of reproductive rights in Egypt.