While she was mainly taking care of her newly born boy, her husband Mohamed Lotfy, an Egyptian-Swiss National, was expanding ECRF to become one of the most important Human Rights Organisations in the country.
[4] In January 2016, an Italian young researcher, Giulio Regeni, was kidnapped, tortured, killed and his body was found on the outskirts of Cairo on February 3 of the same year.
On April 8, 2016, the Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni recalled Italy's ambassador to Cairo protesting the lack of progress in the investigation by Egyptian authorities into the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni.
[7] While the search for truth and justice for Giulio Regeni continues, serious efforts were put in place to return to "normality" and give a fake impression to the Italians, Egyptians and the world that the case is closed and dead.
On 9 May Amal Fathy posted a video on her Facebook page in which she spoke about the prevalence of sexual harassment in Egypt, and criticized the government's failure to protect women.
[8] On 11 May 2018, around 2:30 am, Egyptian security forces raided Amal Fathy and Mohamed Lotfy's home in Maadi in Cairo and brought them both to the police station, along with their three-year-old child.