The Supreme State Security Prosecution decided on 9 March to release 14 people in connection with Case No. 1516 of 2022, including EIPR client Raed Ahmed Ibrahim (a 34-year-old customer service employee). The prosecution also released content creator Suzy Al-Ordoniya, 19, after she was remanded in custody for four days pending investigation into Case No. 925 of 2025, on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news.

Ibrahim was arrested at his home in Minya Governorate on 13 August 2022. The State Security Prosecution interrogated him on terror charges concerning Case No. 1516 of 2022. The prosecution involved him in the case along with 14 others who were arrested while they were on their way to the Minya Security Directorate with the family of the husband of a 19-year-old woman who was said to have converted to Islam and asked not to be handed back to her family. Although Ibrahim had no link to the incident, he remained in pretrial detention for two years and seven months, exceeding the legal maximum of two years.

EIPR stresses the need for the State Security Prosecution to expand the release of pretrial detainees, especially young people, in accordance with the Criminal Procedures Law, which is supposed to keep pretrial detention to a minimum. EIPR calls on the Public Prosecution, represented by the State Security Prosecution, to review the status of all those held in pretrial detention and to release anyone who has exceeded the legal limit, such as Ibrahim, to ensure that no one is detained in violation of the law.