Egypt: Zyad Elelaimy and Ramy Shaath’s inclusion on the ‘Terrorist List’ is a shameful outcome of a politicized judiciary

15/07/2021

Yesterday July 14, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals of human rights defenders Zyad Elelaimy, Ramy Shaath, and eleven others regarding their inclusion on […]

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UN condemns UAE’s forced deportation of a former Guantanamo detainee to Russia despite the risk of torture 

14/07/2021

News briefing   Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 12 July 2021 UN experts have expressed serious concerns about the imminent forcible return of former […]

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UN fears that the lives of two Egyptian brothers were endangered after their arrest and torture following the 2013 military coup

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: July 13, 2021 UN experts have expressed their concern about the suffering of the two brothers, […]

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UN experts stress the need to stop attacks against critics and demonstrators in Ramallah and hold those responsible to account

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 UN human rights experts have expressed serious concerns about a number of attacks by […]

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UN Special Rapporteur: ‘Israeli settlements are a war crime’

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian […]

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Interactive dialogue at the Human Rights Council with the International Commission of Inquiry in Syria, with recommendations to establish a mechanism to find missing persons

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 The Human Rights Council on 6 July held an interactive dialogue with the Independent International […]

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UN calls on Egypt to halt and review pending death sentences 

13/07/2021

News briefing    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva, 13 July 2021   United Nations human rights experts have called on the Egyptian authorities to […]

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UN condemns Israel’s repeated demolition of Palestinian Bedouin property

13/07/2021

News briefing    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva, 13 July 2021    The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in […]

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CFJ director: Human rights violations in the MENA region are due to lack of political will, not shortage of laws

09/07/2021

News briefing Written and translated by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 30 June 2021 The Executive Director of the Committee for Justice, Ahmed Mefreh, participated in […]

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UN concerned about excessive use of force and arrests of Hirak protesters in Algeria  

01/07/2021

News briefing   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice   Geneva: 28 June 2021   UN human rights experts have raised concerns about allegations of arrests, bans […]

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UN concerned about excessive use of force against protesters in Tunisia and the restrictions on freedom of peaceful assembly

01/07/2021

News briefing   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice   Geneva, 28 June 2021     United Nations human rights experts have indicated that the excessive use […]

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Egypt: On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, First Step to Combating Torture is Accountability

28/06/2021

Coinciding with the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the undersigned independent human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian government’s systematic practice of torture […]

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Call for the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and fate of former parliamentarian, Mustafa Al-Naggar, after 1,000 days of enforced disappearance

25/06/2021

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern about the continued disappearance of dentist and former parliamentarian, Mostafa Al-Naggar, on its 1000th day, and call on […]

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Egypt: President Sisi must order immediate release of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, sentenced to four years in prison

23/06/2021

The undersigned rights organizations condemn the sentencing of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison, on 22 June, by the Emergency Supreme State […]

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UN Calls For The Release Of 3 Human Rights Defenders In Bahrain And An Investigation Into Their Allegations Of Torture

23/06/2021

News briefing:  Translation and Editing by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: June 22, 2021  A UN expert has called on Bahrain to immediately release three human rights defenders, who are suffering […]

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