Mahmoud Abdel Nabi
Medium: Internet
Charge: Retaliatory
Imprisoned: July 3, 2013

Abdel Nabi was arrested while covering clashes that erupted between pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters and security forces in Alexandria, hours after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who was then minister of defense, announced the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.

Abdel Nabi is a correspondent for the news website Rassd, which is critical of the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood and the government that subsequently came to power. Months after Abdel Nabi's arrest, Egypt's prosecutor-general accused the banned Muslim Brotherhood of using several media outlets, including Rassd, to support its plot to take over the government and spread lies about the military and the government

Authorities arrested Abdel Nabi, along with his brother, Ibrahim, while he was photographing the clashes around Sidi Bishr mosque in Alexandria, according to reports by Rassd and other news outlets. Police seized his camera. He was charged with possessing weapons and rioting. No trial date had been set by late 2015.

In June 2015, Rassd issued a statement saying Abdel Nabi had been beaten in prison and placed in solitary confinement. He is being held in Borg el Arab prison on the outskirts of Alexandria.

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