Investigative journalist, photographer and human rights defender in Egypt, Ahmed Gamal Ziada has worked as a researcher for several organizations defending human rights, and the rights of victims of violence. He worked as a freelance journalist for a dozen media. He has also published a book about the violations suffered by prisoners and the experience he lived during his detention.
First arrested and detained for approximately 17 months between 2013 and 2015 while covering student protests in Nasr, he was later on acquitted. In 2015, he was seriously injured in a knife attack he considers as an assassination attempt.
Returning from a stay in Tunis in January 2019, he was arrested and detained, handcuffed, for 15 days in an unknown location. Several media then echoed this disappearance. Released on bail, he remains on trial in Egypt. Summoned twice by the National Security Bureau, Ahmed Gamal Zadia left his country.
His situation is mentioned in particular on the human rights defenders website https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/ongoing-detention-journalist-and-human-rights-defender-ahmed-gamal-ziada.
Birth date: 10/17/1988
Nationality: Egyptian
Gender: M
Town of residence: Bruxelles
Work experience: print press, online press, photojournalism, blog, personal website
Positions held: photographer, journalist
Working language: English, Arabic
Areas of intervention: blog, personal website, justice/police/army/human rights, media, social/world of work
Candidate for the following positions: testimony on my own situation, journalist