Hazem Hosny

Hazem Hosny has criticised the policies of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi with Mahmoud Refaat. In January 2018 he supported Sami Anan's bid to contest Sisi in the 2018 Egyptian presidential election.[1][2]

Hosny was arrested without a warrant and held incommunicado in late September 2019 during the 2019 Egyptian protests.[3] His legal defence team called for him to be released immediately.[4] Hosny had earlier described Mohamed Ali, who earlier in September published videos accusing Sisi of corruption and calling for street protests, as playing a "positive role" and described the new protest movement as having the potential to affect the "international formula that largely determines Sisi's continued rule". Hosny argued in favour of "[stripping] Sisi of his dictatorial control of the Egyptian state".[4]

Egyptian authorities released Hosny on 23 February 2021, after he spent about a year and a half in pre-trial detention, under the condition that he stay at home as part of his conditional release[5]