Mohamed Sameh was arrested as a minor on January 14, 2014 with two other men while they were inside a Malaki Toyota car without plates next to the exhibition bridge. The driver escaped immediately after seeing the troops. They were presented before the prosecution where they were charged with participating in violence, burning 3 police cars in Batanta and the Malaki car in Ibrahim Muharram Street, participating in a demonstration, and setting fire to one of the kiosks. They were detained pending investigations. He was released and discharged on March 9, 2014, and sentenced in absentia to 5 years in prison on 11 April 2016.