Egypt's State Security Prosecution, said Aboul Foutouh's lawyer Khaled Ali, held a hearing that lasted five hours for the head of the Strong Egypt Party.

The Prosecution accused Aboul Foutouh of five charges: leading a terrorist organisation, funding terrorist organisations, owning arms and ammunition, promoting the ideology of a terrorist organisation and spreading false news and propaganda inside and outside the country.

Aboul Foutouh's lawyer expected similar charges to be filed against others as well.

The Cairo Criminal Court had listed 28 people as terrorists, including Abdel Moneim Aboul Foutouh, Alaa Abdel Fattah, Mohammad Al-Baqer, Najl Khayrat Al-Shater, and others, sentencing them to five years of prison.

Aboul Foutouh was arrested and  placed in preventive detention since February 14th 2018, spending his sentence in solitary. Two years after his detention, the maximum period of preventive detention allowed by law, Egypt's Supreme State Security Prosecution investigated Aboul Foutouh in a new case and filed charges against him.