Amnesty International said in a statement on Thursday that three of Mohamed Morsy’s aides were moved on Tuesday evening from the military facility where they were being held to an unknown place, and that two other aides, Essam al-Haddad and Ayman Ali, are isolated from the outside world.
The statement said the five have been arbitrarily detained since 3 July 2013, calling it a “forced disappearance.”
The wife of Khaled Qazzaz told Amnesty International that her husband and Ayman al-Serafy and Abdel Meguid Mashaly were taken to an unknown place, which she believes is the Al-Aqrab prison.
The statement also said that the families of the five detainees were denied the right to assign lawyers for their defense.
According to the statement, official media reports announced on 18 December that the Homeland Security Service arrested three of Morsy’s aides in an apartment in Heliopolis and sent them to the Supreme State Security Bureau for questioning, adding that each was placed in solitary detention.
The organization urged the authorities to immediately disclose the whereabouts of the five detainees and allow them to see their families and assign lawyers and doctors.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
