Ali Ahmad Mahmoud Shahat

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Ali Ahmad Mahmoud Shahat is detained for his religious association. 

In March 2025, Egyptian authorities detained Shahat along with over a dozen members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light after one member hung a banner displaying a religious symbol on a pedestrian bridge. Authorities charged Shahat with membership in a banned group and confined him in the 10th Ramadan prison after denying him legal counsel. 

In December 2025, sheikhs from the state-backed Al-Azhar religious authority tried to coerce Shahat to renounce his faith. Egyptian authorities beat him severely and tortured him.