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Khaled Ali is a human rights lawyer. He was head of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR), co-founded both the Front for Defending Egypt’s Protesters and the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre (HMLC) and founded the Aish we Horreiya (Bread and Freedom) party. He has worked on anti-corruption issues, workers’ rights and freedom of expression, association and assembly.
He declared his intention to run for the 2018 presidency in February 2017 and withdrew his candidacy in January 2018, mentioning external pressure as a primary reason for his decision. In May 2017, charges were brought against him for allegedly making an obscene gesture in public while celebrating the Supreme Administrative Court’s decision of January 2016 rejecting an agreement to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. He was subsequently sentenced to three months in prison.
Mr Ali’s appeal was dismissed and a three-month jail sentence was upheld on 19 September 2018, suspended for three years. EuroMed Rights and the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales monitored the trial and published a trial observation report highlighting an inappropriate proximity between the judges and the prosecution.
On 6 October 2018 a travel ban was issued against him without any formal notification and he was added to a watch list reportedly due to his suspected involvement in case 173/2011, known as the foreign funding case. Mr Ali gave legal assistance to several defendants within the same case.
To know more about Khaled Ali and his work, follow his Twitter account here.