Ibrahim Metwaly Hegazy is an Egyptian lawyer and

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

activist and a member of the

Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) ( ar, المفوضية المصرية للحقوق و الحريات, al-Mafwaḍiyyah al-Miṣriyyah lil-Ḥuqūq wal-Ḥurrīyāt) is an Egyptian human rights organisation based in Cairo. T ...

. In September 2017, Metwaly was detained by the Egyptian security services. He had been investigating the death in Egypt of the Italian student Giulio Regeni. On 10 September 2017, Metwaly was thrown into

Tora Prison Tora Prison ( arz, سجن طره '; ) is an Egyptian prison complex for criminal and political detainees, located in Tora, Egypt. The complex is situated in front of the Tora El Balad metro station. The main buildings in the Tora Prison complex a ...

. His detention was criticised by the governments of the UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.

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