About Ibrahim Metwaly
Born 1960. Ibrahim Metwaly is an Egyptian anwalt, human rights defender and lawyer.
Ibrahim Metwaly Hegazy is an Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist and a member of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms. 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.
His detention was criticised by the governments of the UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
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Who is Ibrahim Metwaly?
Egyptian human rights activist
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Ibrahim Metwaly was born in 1960.
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Ibrahim Metwaly is an anwalt, human rights defender and lawyer.
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Ibrahim Metwaly is Egyptian.
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