An Egyptian court on Thursday decided to renew the detention of a woman accused of spreading false news after making comments to the BBC a year ago that her daughter was being forcibly disappeared.
The court ordered the extension of the detention of Mona Mahmoud Farid, who is called Um Zubaydah, for another 45 days pending investigation, after the prosecution resumed the decision to release her on Tuesday, according to a judicial source.
Egyptian police arrested Umm Zubaydah in February 2018 after appearing in a documentary titled "Crushing the Opposition in Egypt" produced by the BBC, in which she said that her daughter Zubaydah was forcibly disappeared and accused by the authorities of "joining a terrorist group, False news ".
She was arrested with her young daughter in 2014 because of their presence near a demonstration, and her daughter disappeared forcibly for about a month in 2016, before disappearing again in April.
The report, which drew sharp criticism from the government, also cited other allegations of imprisonment, torture and disappearance of other people in Egypt.
Mona's daughter later appeared on an Egyptian satellite channel and said she fled her mother's house because of disagreements with her, and got married and gave birth to a child. But human rights reports have spoken of forcing the missing daughter to say so in this television interview.
Since the coup led by then-Minister of Defense Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi in July 2013 to President-elect Mohamed Morsi, Egypt is witnessing a systematic escalation of repressive operations that initially focused on members of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and then expanded to include all opposition voices from different currents .
Human rights organizations criticize Egyptian authorities and speak of widespread abuses and repressive practices against all opposition factions.