Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an Egyptian lawyer and Salafi Islamist politician.He has been described by The Economist as a "populist Salafist."In the aftermath of the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, Abu Ismail was arrested on 5 July 2013. On 14 July 2013 Egypt's prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered Ismail's assets to be frozen. His detention was renewed on 17 July 2013 for 15 more days. Read More