An Egyptian court renewed the detention of Al-Jazeera Mubasher journalist Ahmed Al-Najdi for 45 days, exceeding 700 days in pretrial detention, despite his family's appeals to release him due to the deterioration of his health.
It is noteworthy that the Najdi colleague is nearly seventy years old.
Al-Jazeera obtained a picture showing that Al-Najdi was diagnosed with diabetes, while his family appealed to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the Public Prosecutor to release him or transfer him to a private hospital at his own expense due to his poor health and fear of having to amputate his foot.
At the beginning of this month, six Egyptian human rights organizations issued a statement condemning the Egyptian authorities' continued imprisonment of a group of journalists and bloggers, against the background of one list of accusations, all based on national security investigations, despite the diversity and different fields of their work and the circumstances and timing of their arrest and the circumstances of their investigation.
It also condemned the Egyptian authorities’ perpetration of these violations in conjunction with the call for a national dialogue, which is supposed to accommodate all critical opinions and include all the opposition political spectrum, and comes against the background of presidential promises to activate the presidential pardon committee to release political prisoners and prisoners of conscience and not put more of them in prison.