The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfiq to intervene immediately to ensure the implementation of the decision issued on 23 December 2025, by the 19th Circuit of South Cairo Criminal Court, ordering the release of Ahmed Sabry Nasif (26 years old) in Case No. 15986 of 2024 (First Nasr City Misdemeanors). The court also replaced his pretrial detention with precautionary measures requiring him to report twice a week to a police station.

Over the past nine years, Nasif has been investigated and charged in connection with 10 consecutive cases that are almost identical. Each time, he was forcibly disappeared and held in undisclosed locations following his previous release orders before being presented to the prosecution again. 

Nasif was first arrested in January 2017, when he was an 18-year-old high school student, and was deprived of completing his education due to his prolonged detention without justification. Despite being acquitted in four cases and receiving multiple release orders in the remaining cases, the Ministry of Interior has not implemented any of them.

EIPR stresses that following this week’s court decision, Nasif is no longer wanted in any other cases except Case No. 750 of 2019 (Supreme State Security), in which he is being tried alongside 206 other defendants. Nasif is being tried in this case while free of detention, as he had already spent more than two years—the legal maximum—in pretrial detention before his release was ordered.

EIPR reiterates its demand for the Interior Minister to release Nasif immediately and unconditionally, and stop “recycling” him into new cases. Subjecting a young man—arrested at 18 and held for nine years without a single conviction—to similar accusation severely damages the Ministry’s image, especially as it repeatedly ignores binding judicial decisions.