Supreme State Security Prosecution summons Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah for investigation

The Supreme State Prosecution summoned Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah on Saturday to appear for questioning next Monday in case 6182/2025. 

Although the summons did not specify the reason for the investigation, it comes a day after the Interior Ministry issued a statement denying what was published by an unnamed website regarding a leaked letter attributed to an inmate at a correctional and rehabilitation center. The letter included “allegations that he was subjected to violations,” stressing the “falsity of the letter” and that legal action would be taken against those who spread it. The Interior Ministry followed up its statement with another, in which it denied “allegations by the Muslim Brotherhood” regarding a strike by some inmates over violations inside a correctional and rehabilitation center.

Mada Masr published a report on Thursday concerning complaints from prisoners in Badr 3 prison about abuses they have been subjected to. The report includes a leaked letter from Hassan al-Brins, former deputy governor of Alexandria, who is imprisoned in Badr 3, in which he complained of widespread abuses against him and a number of other detainees. The report also includes an announcement from the families of several leading figures in the Muslim Brotherhood currently imprisoned within sector 2 of Badr 3 prison that they are going on an open-ended hunger strike to protest deteriorating conditions in detention and abuses against them.