Draft:Walid Ahmed Shawky

Introduction
Walid Ahmed Shawky is an Egyptian dentist, human rights researcher, and political activist.. . During the 2011 Egyptian revolution, Shawky was a co-founder and member of the political bureau of the April 6 Youth Movement, a democratic grassroots political movement. The April 6 Youth Movement helped spark the January 25, 2011 protests in Egypt, which are widely credited with ending President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year autocratic reign over Egypt

Imprisonment
On Sunday, October 14, 2018, Shawky was detained by police at his private dental clinic in Cairo. He was imprisoned until October 20, 2018, when he appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP)

Shawky was listed as a defendant in Case No. 621/2018. The SSSP accused him of joining an illegal group, misusing social media, and spreading false news. On August 23, 2020, the court published a decision to release Shawky on probation. However, the security forces ignored the decision and instead "forcibly disappeared him for more than a month".

Shawky was brought before the SSSP once more on October 6, 2020 and accused once again of the same charges. He began a hunger strike on February 11, 2022 which lasted until March 16, 2022. Shawky was released on April 24, 2022

Awards and Accomplishments
As a leading figure in the 6th of April Movement, Shawky was selected as a member of the Egyptian Delegation at the European Parliament in 2011.

Publications
In 2016, Shawky wrote a self-critique of the 6th of April Movement in articles published by Mada Masr. He is also an op-ed contributor to Egyptian and Arabic independent news outlets including Mada Masr, Al-Manassa, and Masr 360.

Publications Include:
 * "Cracks in Sisi's Façade" (Journal of Democracy, 2023)
 * "Unfree Reflections on the Elusiveness of Restrictions and the Mysticism of Bars" (Al-Manassa, 2022)
 * Power and Change through Pain (Masr360, 2022)
 * "Shady Habash: A Watershed Point at which the Circle Ends" (Mada Masr, 2020)
 * "Moustafa Kasem: The Question of Existence and Nothingness" (Mada Masr, 2020)
 * "A Look from the Prison's Window: Why Don't You Stand in the Balconies?" (Al-Manassa, 2019)
 * "The Same Case, the Same Old Mistakes" (Mada Masr, 2019)
 * "The Moments of the Sinking of Whale Island: On the Political Discourse of the April 6 Movement" (Mada Masr, 2019)
 * "Dual Punishment" (Egyptian Front for Human Rights, 2018)
 * "When We Won the Odyssey but Lost the Battle: On April 6" (Mada Masr, 2017)
 * "How the Margins Became the Center: On Protest, Politics and April 6" (Mada Masr, 2016)

Other News and Media

 * "Permanent State of Exception" (Amnesty International, 2019)
 * "Egypt: End Arbitrary Detention, Free Them All" (PEN International, 2022)
 * "How Egypt's Activists Became 'Generation Jail'" (New York Times, 2017)
 * "Political Prisoner Walid Shawky Goes on Hunger Strike to Expose Medical Negligence in Egypt's Jails" (Peoples Dispatch, 2022)
 * "Egyptian Judiciary in Service of Repression" (ECOI.net, 2020)
 * "Egyptian human rights organizations: We demand the immediate release of Dr. Walid Shawky and suspending the targeting of peaceful opposition" (Egyptian Front for Human Rights, 2021)
 * "Egypt Releases 41 Political Prisoners" (Al-Monitor, 2022)
 * "Egypt's Revolving Door: Sudden Freedom for Prisoners who Languished" (New York Times, 2022)