Shady Habash
Shady Habash was an Egyptian filmmaker.Biography
Habash started a photography and video business in 2006. He was imprisoned without trial in March 2018 for making a music video for the exiled Egyptian rock musician Ramy Essam, that mocked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The video's release prompted the arrest of eight people, who were "accused of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news." As of 3 May 2020 the video had more than five million views on YouTube. After being incarcerated for more than two years in pretrial detention, Habash died of an unspecified illness in Tora Prison in Cairo in May 2020, aged 24.
