[1] Yusuf, who holds Turkish citizenship, was convicted in absentia in a sham trial by an Egyptian military court on charges of "opposing the state" in 2017.
[2] The trial came after social media posts critical of the El-Sisi dictatorship and his role in backing the advocacy group Egyptian Movement for Change.
[3] Following the 2024 fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Yusuf celebrated the collapse and visited the country and the Umayyad Mosque.
As we entered the square, the crowds installed there cheered the coming of a new battalion, greeting us with joy.
[12]His sister, Ola Al-Qaradawi, spent four years in Egyptian military prisons in arbitrary detention.