Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution summoned activist Ahmed Douma for interrogation on Thursday, human rights lawyer Khaled Ali said.
Douma is scheduled to appear before the prosecution on April 6 accompanied by his defense team after a summoning request was delivered to his family home in Damanhour. He is being investigated in Case No. 2449/2026, Ali wrote on his Facebook account Thursday.
The interrogation would be the second since January and the seventh time Douma appears before the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
Al Manassa has observed that the last five interrogation sessions in separate cases were prompted by Douma’s posts on Facebook and X, recurring at an almost regular interval of roughly one session every three months.
On Jan. 20, security forces arrested Douma from his home in Mokattam. He was questioned for more than 10 hours over his latest posts regarding the assault on his friend, former April 6 Youth Movement spokesperson Mohamed Adel, inside his place of detention. He was later released on bail of 100,000 Egyptian pounds (approximately $1,850).
This session was preceded by five other summonses from the State Security Prosecution during 2025, the last of which took place in September.
“It has become the norm that I have a summons or a new case every two and a half to three months. That’s the pattern they’ve set since the decision to proceed with summonses, bail, investigations, and new cases,” Douma had told Al Manassa at the time.
That session concluded in a release on bail of 50,000 pounds. He was interrogated over a report by the National Security apparatus accusing him of “spreading false news” on Facebook, after he wrote about the alleged physical assault on former supply minister Bassem Ouda while in detention at Badr prison by a National Security officer.
In late July, the Supreme State Security Prosecution summoned Douma in a new case, No. 621/ 2025, accusing him of “broadcasting and publishing false news, statements, and rumors likely to harm national security and public peace,” before releasing him on bail of 50,000 pounds.
In that case, prosecutors confronted Douma with four social media posts: one about the poor condition of the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road and the city of Abu al-Matamir; another on the Israeli blockade of Gaza; a third on accusations by Egyptian media that Hamas had fought the Egyptian army in Sinai; and a fourth related to the novel The Fool and the Dead Man and the Bastard and the Invisible by Spanish writer Juan José Millás.
Earlier, on April 26, the same prosecution authority ordered Douma’s release on bail of 10,000 pounds in Case No. 2563 of 2025, after accusing him of “spreading false news inside and outside the country,” according to Ali.
Ali said the investigation in that case focused on a Facebook post published by Douma on April 13, in which he accused an informant at the Tora Investigation Prison of causing the death of a criminal detainee convicted in a drug case.
The detainee had allegedly been forced to drink a substance used to induce defecation as part of a search procedure applied to criminal and sometimes political detainees to ensure they are not concealing contraband internally.
Douma had responded to the accusation of “spreading false news” over the incident by saying, “These are things that were happening in front of me, and I hope they are investigated and stopped,” his lawyer said.
It remains unclear what accusations the prominent activist faces in the new case.
