Omar Abd El-Salam was arrested as a minor during the events of Sidi Bashr and Al-Aweed on November 29, 2013 and presented to the prosecution under case No. 396 for the year 2014, child misdemeanours. He was charged with joining a terrorist gang, obstruction of a road, assembly and destroying private property. He was ordered to be detained pending investigations. On 26 November 2014, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined 50,000. He appealed the verdict to obtain his acquittal on December 27, 2014.
