Mostafa Abd El-Wahab was arbitrarily arrested as a minor in Alexandria on July 3, 2014 and charged with joining the banned Muslim Brotherhood, preventing state institutions from doing their work, blocking roads, disrupting public and private transportation, and violating the law of demonstration under case No. 697 of 2014, juvenile misdemeanours. He was detained pending investigation. He was acquitted on October 23, 2014.