Mohamed Alsaid Abdelghany, Ahmed Maghawry, Ramy Maghawry, Mohamed Abdelhamid, and Osama Awadeen were arrested on 15 July 2010 at their respective homes by agents of State Security Intelligence (SSI). They were taken to the SSI's Al-Mansoura headquarters and then eventually transferred to the SSI headquarters in Nasr City, where they were secretly detained and tortured.