Sana Seif
A filmmaker and human rights defender, she was born in December 1993.
She was sentenced to 18 months in jail in Case No. 12499 of 2020 for publishing false news.
Sanaa Seif is known for her advocacy of political rights in Egypt and her activism began since the revolution of January 25th, 2011.
She worked as an editor and shooter on the documentary “Al-Medan”, a film describing events of the Egyptian revolution from 2011 to 2013 which won an award as best documentary film at the Toronto Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar as well.
Sanaa was arrested in 2014 while participating in demonstrations against the protest law and sentenced to two years in jail. She was then released with a presidential pardon in 2015. After that she continued her activities defending political detainees and sharing information through blogging, monitoring human rights violations in prisons and supporting her detainee brother Alaa Abdel Fattah.
Because of her activity of monitoring human rights violations in prisons and the living conditions of detainees, including her brother, she was physically assaulted in June 2020 in front of Tora prison, while trying to visit her brother. When she went to the office of the Attorney General to file a report and denounce the assault, she was forcibly disappeared, and later arrested and accused of publishing false news in Case No. 12499 of 2020.
On March 17, 2021, Sanaa was sentenced to 18 months in jail although neither the State Security Prosecution nor National Security did provide any evidence of the validity of the accusations against her.
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