Hala Sayed was arrested on July 3, 2015 from a field event in Maadi and held in the Dar es Salaam section. Then she was imprisoned in Al-Qanater prison under case No. 8597 of 2015, Dar es Salaam misdemeanours. On August 11, 2015, she was released on bail of 5,000 pounds. After paying bail, she was included in another case, case No. 952 for 2015, Dar es Salaam Misdemeanours, for possession of a weapon and publications. She was released on acquittal on 6 December 2017 – she was arrested again in September 2019 amidst the events of 20 September. She was forcibly disappeared until she appeared on September 30, 2019 before the prosecution under case No. 1413 for 2019, Supreme State Security . She was released on October 24, 2019 – Violations: medical negligence, as she suffers from hypertension and is subjected to repeated fainting – rotating, as there was intransigence in her release and she was included in a new case in 2015 – she was subjected to enforced disappearance for several days in September 2019.