Moreover, such new charges arise from the same factual bases upon which people were originally charged. The ICJ also remains extremely concerned at the law enforcement authorities’ systematic perpetration of enforced disappearances against detainees with impunity, often prior to or during periods of prolonged detention that was already arbitrary in nature. Tellingly, Egypt features among the recipients of the highest number of communications in the 2025 annual reports of both the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Emblematically, despite this Council’s Special Procedures’ repeated calls to immediately release him — including most recently in January of this year by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders — Egypt continues to arbitrarily detain human rights defender Ibrahim Metwally solely for his human rights activism. This month marked the eight-year anniversary of Mr. Metwally’s initial arrest on spurious terrorism charges as he attempted to travel from Cairo to Geneva to attend a session of this Council’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.