CAIRO: A campaigner for presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahi in Alexandria, Islam Hafez, has been missing since Sunday, Sabahi’s campaign media coordinator in Alexandria Hany Shalaby told Daily News Egypt Thursday.
Hafez was allegedly taken from in front of Cairo’s main railway station, but there are no confirmed reports that he has been abducted. He last updated his Twitter account a little after 1 am on Monday.
"Hafez usually disappears and it turns out that he was hanging out somewhere. No signs he is abducted, we cannot jump to conclusions," Shalaby told DNE.
"But we contacted his family and they said they know nothing about him, but this does not mean he is abducted," Shalaby said.
A Facebook group dedicated to Hafez asked the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to find out Hafez’s whereabouts.
"We did not accuse any entity including the SCAF of abducting him, so we have to wait because there is a 90 percent possibility that nothing wrong happened to him," Shalaby said.
Hafez said on his Twitter account one week before disappearing that rapper and El-Fara’een Channel TV host Ahmed Spider threatened to kill him when Hafez implied that he will expose his “dirty history” in a reaction to Spider’s continued targeting of activists.
Spider recently threatened on air to file a complaint against activist Asmaa Mahfouz who was summoned by military prosecution for insulting the military and was released on LE 20,000 with before being pardoned by SCAF.
"I will file a complaint at the Prosecutor General’s office against anyone who targets Egypt’s honorable youth," Hafez said on his Twitter account.
"I will restore my right by law because I am not a barbarian," he added.
Earlier this week, ElBaradie campaigner in Alexandria Mahmoud Shaaban was released after claiming to have been abducted by members of the dissolved state security apparatus.
Shaaban filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General holding accountable the Head of the National Security apparatus, the Minister of Interior and Alexandria’s military commander for his abduction.
