Alkarama has learned that the Egyptian authorities have released the young Egyptian, Karim Yasser Abdelnabi Abdelazim, pending further investigation -whose details remain unknown-, and whose case was submitted by Alkarama on behalf of the family to the United Nations Special Procedures.
On 25 April 2022, Alkarama addressed the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances regarding the situation of Karim Yasser Abdelnabi Abdelazim, who was arrested by security forces in Sharqia Governorate (northeast of Egypt) on 12 April 2022.
Several members of the security forces who arrived in cars surrounded the shopping center where Abdelazim works. The latter was arrested without any explanation, and forced into a vehicle before being taken to an unknown destination.
Since then, his family has not heard from him despite their attempts to contact the Eastern authorities who refused to acknowledge his arrest and detention.
According to customers of the shopping center and several eyewitnesses, the security forces confiscated all surveillance camera receivers installed in the street where the shopping center is located.
With the consent of the family, Alkarama sent, on 25 April 2022, an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances, requesting the urgent intervention of the Egyptian authorities in order to clarify the fate of Karim Yasser Abdelnabi Abdelazim, and to release him, and in any case, to put him under the protection of the law.