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| Egyptian business tycoon Safwan Thabet, son detained over terror charges released: Family |
| 2023-01-23 |
| [AlAhram] Safwan Thabet, the chairman of the country’s biggest dairy and juice producer Juhayna Food Industries, and his son Seif El-Din, who were detained over terror charges, were released, the businessman’s daughter wrote on social media on Saturday. Thabet has been kept in pretrial detention since December 2020 for allegedly joining a terrorist group in the case 865/2020. Seif El-Din, deputy chairman of Juhayna, was then arrested in the same case in February 2021. The business tycoon and his son faced charges of joining and financing a terrorist group to help it change the regime by force. They were also accused of aiding and abetting assaults against the army and police personnel and their institutions and of harming the economy. "God has accepted our prayers, my father Safwan Thabet and my brother Seif El-Din Thabet are with us," Mariam Thabet wrote. Safwan Thabet is an engineer who also served as the chairman of the Chamber of Food Industries at Federation of Egyptian Industries. The case 865/2020 also includes Egyptian business mogul Sayed Ragab El-Sewerky, the owner of El-Tawheed & El-Nour department stores. El-Sewerky was also arrested in December 2020 and is still behind bars. No official statement on the freeing of Thabet and his son has been released at the time of writing. Authorities arrested Safwan Thabet in December 2020, and he remained in detention pending an investigation into accusations that he helped fund a terrorist group — a reference to the Moslem Brüderbund, which Egypt banned as a terrorist organization. The freeing of the two men was the latest in a series of releases of pro-democracy Over the past year, Egypt released or pardoned dozens of detainees as the country’s human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... record came under international scrutiny when it hosted the UN climate change summit in November. The government also embarked on a dialogue with its critics. The Egyptian government has been relentless in its silencing of dissenters and clamped down on independent organizations with arrests, detentions, prison sentences, and other restrictions. |
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