Number of days CEU student Ahmed Samir Santawy has spent in an Egyptian prison.
362
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
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.
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.
September 5, 2021
AFTE demands an end to the arbitrary practices against #AhmedSamirSantawy, as well as allowing him to obtain textbooks sent by his university, and renews its call for a speedy decision on the appeal submitted against his prison sentence. #FreeAhmedSamirhttps://t.co/EGXklcO9jW
August 5, 2021
Ahmed Samir Santawy, a Master’s student in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University in Vienna, Austria has been detained since February 2021 and was sentenced in June to four years in prison. It appears that his sentence may be in retaliation for his work with women’s rights.
August 3, 2021
As vicerector of Ghent University and chair of its Human Rights Committee I strongly beseech Egyptian President El-Sisi to cancel the court's verdict to imprison MA student Ahmed Samir for 4 years and to set him free so that he can continue his studies @ceu. #FreeAhmedSamir https://t.co/CS32Eq8p4f
August 2, 2021
#FreeAhmedSamir
6 months in Egyptian cell
+40 days on hunger strike
1 acceptable outcome: his immediate release
Today his partner @YildizSouheila tells their story to vice-rector @ugent
@HerrewegheMieke.
Action is needed now! @Sophie_Wilmes @JanJambon
August 2, 2021
For 40 days he has been on hunger strike, he cannot leave his cell even for an hour of air, he has lost 15 kilos and probably has liver problems. These are the conditions of #AhmedSamirSantawy, arrested in Egypt in a story similar to that of #PatrickZaki. Free him.
July 22, 2021
Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master's student at Central European University in Vienna, was arrested on February 1 while visiting his family in Egypt. He was subsequently beaten and interrogated and sentenced to four years in prison on June 22. The anthropology student, also known as Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali, did research on women's and reproductive rights, among other things, and criticized the Egyptian government's pandemic policy.
July 22, 2021
The Flemish universities urge @PresidentAlSisi to release Egyptian student #AhmedSamirSantawy and ask for the support from Flemish, Belgian and EU diplomacy. https://t.co/a1t8UjMTQo
July 16, 2021
Ahmed Samir Santawy: Flemish universities call on Egyptian government for his immediate release | Flemish universities urge the Egyptian Government to release him unconditionally
July 16, 2021
IFEX joins rights groups in calling on President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to quash the unfair verdict against researcher and graduate student Ahmed Samir Santawy, who was sentenced to four years in prison on "false news" charges.
July 16, 2021
While #PatrickZaki's detention continues, #AhmedSamirSantawy, a researcher at Central European University in Vienna is still in prison: sentenced to four years, he has been on hunger strike for almost a month demanding justice and freedom. We also insist on justice and freedom.
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