The Misdemeanor Court refused the appeal made by four Quranists, Abdelatif Mohamed, Amr Tharwat, Ahmed Dahmash, and Abdelhamid Mohamed. The Appeal was made to challenge their arrest which is pending on the running investigations by the general prosecutor’s office of their charge of Sunna Denial. During the hearing, Adel Ramadan, the Attorney of the Quranists, asked the court to free the arrested, while the prosecutor represented what supports the continuation of arresting the Quranists based on the running investigations.

Earlier, the security forces arrested five Quranists and transferred them to the general prosecutor’s office under the supervision of prosecutor Hisham Elbadwi to continue the investigations which resulted in renewing the arrest for another fifteen days. As for the defense, Adel Ramadan is expected to apply for another appeal for the fifth Quranist arrested after the passage of the legally required time period.