I’ve just received news that Ihab Magdi Farouk has been sentenced today to three months in prison, on charges of “mobile phone theft.”
I was told by an EOHR lawyer who’s following the case that the Imbaba police agents are hysterically involved behind the scenes to try to reach a deal with Ihab, so as to drop the police brutality charges against the Imbaba Police Station agents, whose trial is coming up on 3 March.
The worrying developments, the lawyer I spoke to said, includes Ihab’s refusal to give the power of attorney to the EOHR lawyers, and instead using another lawyer his family brought him. “The lawyer is being pressured by one of the police corporals to drop the case,” he said. “There’s so much happening behind the scenes that we are not aware of.”