Restrictions: Travel Ban |
Hossam Al-Din Ali is the president of the Egyptian Democratic Institute, which works on human rights, political participation and democracy.
On 27 February 2016, he was stopped at Cairo International Airport and barred from travelling to the United States. He was on his way to attend an international conference on ways to fight corruption. He discovered his travel ban at Cairo International Airport, as he had not been notified of it beforehand.
Mr Al-Din Ali was investigated in relation to case no.173/2011, known as the foreign funding case on 20 May 2018. He was accused of receiving foreign funding, harming national security and managing the branch of an international organisation without a licence, before being released on bail of 20,000 EGP.