Ahmed Douma

[3] In February 2009, Ahmed Douma, then a student at Tanta University, was arrested at the border to the Gaza Strip, after he had entered it with a group of anti-war activists who wanted to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people.

[4] In January 2012, he was detained and charged with inciting violence against the army and encouraging attacks on public property, following the Cabinet clashes in December 2011.

[10] In an attempt to reverse the verdict, Douma joined a hunger strike with other detainees who were imprisoned under the new protest law.

[13] Hamdeen Sabahi has censured the court conviction sentencing Maher, Mohamed Adel, and Douma to three years in prison and a fine of LE50,000 and maintains that Interim President Adly Mansour should issue these and other detained individuals a pardon.

On 24 November 2022, the European Parliament also called for the Egyptian authorities to immediately release the unjustly detained prisoners, including Douma.

However, security officials barged into the publishing house section during the fair and asked them to take Douma's poetry collection down.