Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali announced on Sunday, November 1, 2026, that the Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered the release of 8 Al Ahly fans held in pretrial detention in Case No. 3099 of 2025, Supreme State Security registry, known in the media as the Al Ahly fans case.
The decision covered Khaled Mohamed Abdel Badie, Hamdy Emad Hamdy Arafa, Tarek Adel Abdel Fattah Salama, Hossam Hassan Ahmed, Amr Khaled Atef Abu Soliman, Mohamed Zeinhom Abdel Rahman, Youssef Mohamed Abu El-Nour, and Mohamed Fouad Abdel Qader. The charges against them and the conditions of their release were not announced.
The Committee for Justice had documented on January 13, 2026, the continued pretrial detention of 37 Al Ahly fans in 12 cases before the Supreme State Security Prosecution, arrested at different times and places, with no announced charges of committing violent acts. The organization said businessman Yassin Mansour publicly promised on October 20, 2025, to intervene to end their ordeal, and that the club’s management backed this, but the promises did not translate into practical steps.
Also in January 2026, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights called on the Public Prosecutor to release Al Ahly fans detained in cases related to cheering, saying that the long detention of young people who committed no violent acts violates the principle of equality, after defendants in similar cases were released.
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