Ibrahim Metwaly, human rights lawyer and co-founder and coordinator of the Association of the Families of the Disappeared in Egypt, has spent over seven years arbitrarily detained in retaliation for his human rights work. Security forces arrested Ibrahim Metwaly on 10 September 2017 from the Cairo International Airport while on his way to Geneva to address the UN. Since September 2024, he has been referred to two separate trials on similar bogus charges. He is held in Badr 3 prison, where he is being denied urgent healthcare. He must be immediately and unconditionally released as he is being held solely due to the exercise of his human rights, including seeking truth and justice for his forcibly disappeared son.
