W4R 2024: Egypt - Oqba Hashad

Twenty-seven-year-old student Oqba Hashad has been held in pretrial detention in Egypt since May 2019, solely in retaliation for his brother Amr’s human rights activism. Oqba was forcibly disappeared, tortured and denied the prosthetic leg he has used since a childhood accident - leaving him physically reliant on others. While he is held in terrible conditions without access to adequate healthcare, the Egyptian authorities have opened a new bogus case against him to justify his continued detention.