Ezzat Ghoniem is an Egyptian lawyer and human rights activist.
Director of the NGO Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, he disappeared on 1 March 2018 and was interrogated for three days before detention as part of a "human rights terrorism" plot.
After the Egyptian regime hanged 15 Islamists found guilty of terrorism charges in December 2017, Ghoniem criticized the "new wave of oppression", claiming that "these executions will only push the thousands of young people in prison into the arms of Daesh".
[1] While he was interrogated for three days, authorities withheld information about his whereabouts.
The Ministry of the Interior later showed excerpts from his interrogation on its Facebook page, claiming that Ghoniem was part of an organized "human rights terrorism" plot.