Egypt
The Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports released a statement on 27 August announcing that it had referred the two cases involving national wrestlers who vanished from their delegations abroad to the public prosecutor’s office, saying that athletic achievement does not exempt anyone from accountability. The ministry said the cases of Mohamed Mostafa Ali El-Shami, who disappeared during a layover in Rome after the Mediterranean Games in Taranto, Italy, and Ziad Hegazy, who went missing during the world junior wrestling…
