1. Personal information:
a. Birth: Ms. Mariam was arrested at the age of 41.

b. Upbringing: She was born in the city of El-Arish in North Sinai Governorate. She married and had two children: Ms. Kholoud Salem Ayed Odah, who was imprisoned with her, and Mr. Ayed Salem Ayed, who joined the terrorist group ISIS.
She and her daughter were arrested even though they had not committed any act of violence or terrorism or joined any group, as part of a campaign the authorities launched against a large number of men and women living in North Sinai, whose only crime is being relatives of people accused of joining armed groups.

c. Occupation: Housewife.

d. Political activity/affiliation: She has no political activity or affiliation.

2. Previous arrests:
– 18 March 2020, arrest: Although neither she nor her daughter, Ms. Kholoud Salem Ayed Odah, belonged to any political group, they were arrested at their home in Bir El-Abd, Third El-Arish district. This happened because her daughter defended her brother, Mr. Ayed Salem Ayed Odah, when an officer described him as a “terrorist”. The Egyptian authorities treated her as a hostage in their dispute with her son because he had joined ISIS. She and her daughter were then taken to the Third El-Arish Police Station, where they stayed for 9 days, then transferred to the First El-Arish Police Station, and from there to a camp in Ismailia, where they stayed for a month and a half without being brought before any investigating authority.

– 6 May 2020, first appearance before the prosecution: After nearly two months, she was brought before the Supreme State Security Prosecution together with her daughter. The prosecution ordered them detained in Case No. 810 of 2019 Supreme State Security Inquiry.

– 21 December 2020, first release decision: The competent court ordered her and her daughter released with precautionary measures pending investigations in the case mentioned above.

– December 2020 to January 2021, transfers ahead of carrying out the first release decision: After her release in Case No. 810 of 2019 Supreme State Security Inquiry, she was transferred from Al-Qanater Women’s Prison to Abu Sweir Police Station in Ismailia, then to El-Qantara Gharb Police Station in Ismailia, and on 11 January 2021 to the First El-Arish Police Station in North Sinai.

– 31 January 2021, first recycling (second case): The court’s decision to release her with precautionary measures was not carried out. Instead, she appeared before the Public Prosecution in Ismailia and was recycled into a new case whose details are unknown.

– 7 February 2021, second release decision: She was released on bail of EGP 1,000 pending investigations in a case whose details are unknown, and was transferred to the Third El-Arish Police Station. The decision was not carried out.

– March 2021, precautionary measures lifted in the first case despite her recycling into a new case: The Supreme State Security Prosecution lifted the precautionary measures in the first case, No. 810 of 2019 Supreme State Security Inquiry, even though she was being held unlawfully at the time ahead of being recycled into a third case.

3. Timeline since the second recycling (third case)
a. Background of the arrest:
– 11 January 2021, recycling: Ms. Mariam and her daughter were transferred to the First El-Arish Police Station in North Sinai ahead of being recycled into a new case.

– 31 January 2021, third appearance before the prosecution: She and her daughter were brought before the prosecution in a new case.

b. Background of the case: She was recycled and added to a case before the Abu Sweir Prosecution, about which there is no information.

c. Trial and release:
– 7 February 2021, third release decision: A decision was issued to release her on bail of EGP 1,000 pending investigations in the case whose details are unknown, and she was transferred to the Third El-Arish Police Station to carry out the decision. But for the third time, the decision was not carried out.

– 24 April 2021, recycling into a fourth case: She was brought before the prosecution in a new case whose details are unknown, and was then released on bail of EGP 1,000.

She remained at the police station until she was sent to the Abu Sweir Prosecution in a fifth new case. She is still in pretrial detention, and there is no other information about the case.

4. Detention conditions
a. Places of detention: Ms. Mariam was held in several police stations in Ismailia and North Sinai governorates, and was also held unlawfully at the security camp in Ismailia. She spent most of her pretrial detention in Al-Qanater Women’s Prison.

b. Violations: She was subjected to a number of violations in places of detention, as follows:
– Arbitrary arrest: she was arrested because her son joined a terrorist group, which contradicts the principle in the Egyptian Constitution that punishment is personal.
– Recycling: she was recycled into four different cases, and none of the release decisions issued by the Supreme State Security Prosecution or the competent criminal court were carried out.
– Enforced disappearance: she was hidden inside police stations and the Ismailia camp after her first arrest, and again each time she was recycled into a new case.
– Beating and insults by police officers and National Security personnel.
– Sexual harassment and indecent assault inside camps and police stations.
– Being stripped of her clothes.
– Being banned from visits and any form of contact from the start of the coronavirus outbreak.
– Physical and psychological coercion to force her to confess to joining and financing that group.

c. Living conditions in prison: After she and her daughter Kholoud were placed in Al-Qanater Women’s Prison, she was separated from her granddaughter, whom her daughter gave birth to inside the police station. The baby was placed in the Dar El-Mostakbal orphanage in Ismailia, and she has not been able to see her at all since then. In addition, she was completely banned from visits and any form of contact from the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and she did not attend her renewal hearings for several months; renewals were done on paper only.