He was arrested after attending a silent vigil on 19 November 2015 commemorating the Mohammed Mahmoud Street protests of 2011, for which he was given a two year prison sentence on 13 December 2015. 5. Ismail Al-Iskandarani is a researcher and journalist who is one of the few to publish on conditions faced by civilians in the North Sinai, where a counter-insurgency operation is underway organized by the Egyptian military. He was detained on 29 November 2015, and is facing charges of spreading the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood and intentionally spreading false information.