Additional Name(s): أنس حسن

Gender: Male

Perpetrator: Egypt

Religion or Belief: Unspecified

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Appeal: Rejected

Sentence: 3 Years' Imprisonment

Date of Detainment: August//2019

Date of Sentencing: February/27/2020

Current Status: Unknown

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Blasphemy (General) Blasphemy (Religious Texts) Non-Belief Online Activity

Nature of Charges: Blasphemy Immorality Incitement to Commit Crime & Violence Miscellaneous Religious Crimes

Anas Hassan

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Anas Hassan was imprisoned for his alleged religious/non-belief activity. 

In August 2019, authorities arrested Hassan for allegedly running the Facebook page, "The Egyptian Atheists,” which state investigators had said promoted atheism and criticized "divinely revealed religions." 

Prosecutors later referred Hassan's case to the Economic Misdemeanors Court of Ameriya under the following articles: “publishing a religious text in a way that distorts its meaning” (Art. 161(1) ECC), “inciting people to commit felonies through oral or visual means” (Art. 171 ECC), "inciting hatred against a sect of people" (Art. 176 ECC), "assaulting Egyptian family values” (Art. 25 Cyber-Crime Law, 2018), “misusing social media” (Art. 27 Cyber-Crime Law, 2018), and more. 

On February 27, 2020, the Economic Misdemeanors Court of Ameriya sentenced Hassan to three years in prison and fined him 300,000 Egyptian pounds for "insulting religion and misusing social media."

On June 21, 2020, the Economic Misdemeanor Appeals Court of Alexandria upheld Hassan's sentence.

On February 10, 2022, the Court of Cassation rejected Hassan's appeal.

Hassan's sentence should have ended.

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