Ibrahim Ezz El-Din is an architectural planning engineer and researcher at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) who worked on the right to housing and forced evictions in Egypt. On 12 June 2019, human rights defender Ibrahim Ezz El-Din was arrested by the Egyptian security forces in Mokattam area and forcibly disappeared for months. He was subsequently charged with 'spreading false news', 'belonging to a terrorist group' and 'the misuse of the social media', and reportedly detained in inhumane conditions, with limited access to required medical treatment. Ibrahim Ezz El-Din criticised how authorities managed slums and megaprojects, saying their investment into the new administrative capital would have been better spent on improving water sanitation and housing developments. Few days before his disappearance, Ezz el-Din strongly had appeared in a tv program criticising the choice of creating the mega-project New Capital reserved for the elite.