Freedom for Mohamed El-Baqer
After 150 days of renewals of detention in front of the state security prosecution – the time allowed for the prosecution to renew detention without […]
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Egypt: Government retaliates against rights researcher with electric shock torture and false charges
Joint Statement The undersigned organizations demand the immediate and unconditional release of Patrick George Zaki, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and […]
Palestine: United States Plan to Entrench Israel’s Apartheid Regime Must be Rejected
Over the last three years, the Trump administration has increasingly implemented one-sided policies favoring the Government of Israel that contravene international law and reward Israel’s […]
Egypt: Close Case 488 and immediately release all defendants
100 days since the imprisonment of Esraa Abdel-Fattah Detention renewed for journalists Hossam al-Sayyad, Sulafa Majdi, Khaled Dawoud, We, the undersigned organizations, renew our demand […]
Egypt: Detainees Ensnared in Prison System by Illegitimate Practice of “Recycling Cases”
Tampering with Egypt’s judiciary to keep government critics perpetually behind bars Joint Statement The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the Supreme State Security Prosecution’s illegitimate […]
Egypt | Detention Watch “Violations in Egyptian Places of Detention” Bimonthly report November-December 2019
Following CFJ’s previous periodic reports on human rights violations against individuals who are under the custody of law enforcement officers and security agencies in the […]
Egypt: Rights organizations demand investigations in the 167-day disappearance and torture of Ibrahim Ezz El-Din
Rather than denial to the international community Days before his detention renewal session scheduled for Sunday, December 22, the undersigned Egyptian rights organizations renew their […]
Egypt: Rights organizations hold Egyptian authorities accountable for Ramy Kamel’s safety and life
The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations condemn the continued detention of Ramy Kamel, a human rights activist and defender of Coptic Christian minority rights in Egypt. We call […]
“With No Accountability”
Death incidents inside Egyptian places of detention during the period between 30 June 2013 and 1 December 2019. Geneva 10 December 2019 On the occasion […]
Egypt: Citizens’ lack of trust in the justice system is the real danger
Renewed detention is latest development in the Hope Coalition Case All defendants[1] in the Hope Coalition Case (no. 930 of 2019) had their detention renewed […]
Egypt | Detention Watch “Violations in Egyptian Places of Detention” Bimonthly report September-October 2019
Following committee for justice’s previous periodic reports on human rights violations against individuals who are under the custody of law enforcement officers and security agencies […]
Egypt | UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of other inmates at severe risk
GENEVA (8 November 2019) The prison regime in Egypt may have directly led to the death of former President Mohamed Morsi, and may be placing […]
Egypt: Systematic torture is a state policy
Joint UN submission by rights groups exposes endemic torture and appalling conditions in Egypt’s prisons Harrowing testimonies of systematic torture continue being too frequently heard […]
Egypt | 300 UN recommendations spurned by the Egyptian government, 12 demands must be urgently implemented before next month’s UPR
Egypt: Newly released rights report details direly declining human rights situation since 2014 Egypt’s human rights situation is at its worst since 2014, as corroborated […]
Egypt: Rights groups call for immediate release of protesters, political party leaders, and presidential candidates
UN must be invited to investigate the situation in Egypt The brutal crackdown by Egyptian state security, which in the last few days was marked […]
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