Egypt | Human Rights Council: Countries Should Take Bold Action
Monitoring, Tough Message on Dire Rights Situation Long Overdue (Geneva – February 9, 2021) Egypt’s human rights community is facing “annihilation” by President Abdel Fattah […]
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A woman’s guide to a safe day in Egypt
Welcome dear, is this your first visit to Egypt? No problem, it is OK. You just have to know all the rules and laws to […]
Egypt: State authorities must be held to account for violence perpetrated against detained journalist Solafa Magdy
The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecutor to urgently open credible investigations into the physical assaults, acts of harassment, and abuse […]
Mefreh: Everyone in Egypt is targeted, including children
Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: January 26, 2021 The executive director of the Committee for Justice (CFJ), Ahmed Mefreh, said that there are no red lines in Egypt now, and that everyone […]
Egypt’s human rights situation hits record low on the 10th anniversary of the revolution
On the 10th anniversary of the 25 January revolution, the Committee for Justice (CFJ) condemned Egypt’s intensified crackdown on hundreds of citizens as part of its […]
In a press interview, CFJ director reveals the positive and negative effects of the January 25 revolution on the human rights community in Egypt
News briefing Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: January 25, 2021 The executive director of the Committee for Justice (CFJ) Ahmed Mefreh said that the […]
Regeni case: In Egypt, no one is safe, says CFJ director
News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: December 22, 2020 The Executive Director of the Committee for Justice (CFJ) Ahmed Mefreh, said […]
After one-year anniversary of unwarranted arrest and solitary confinement, Ramy Kamel must be freed
As November 23, 2020 marked one year of solitary confinement for Ramy Kamel, a Coptic Egyptian Human rights defender, 15 organizations urge American and European […]
Egypt: UN demand halting the execution of a monk tortured to confess to alleged crimes
Translation and editing by Committee for Justice Geneva, December 21, 2020 UN experts have expressed their concern about the Egyptian authorities’ mistreatment of two members of […]
Egypt: New record in the implementation of the death penalty
The Committee for Justice (CFJ) said Wednesday that Egyptian authorities implemented a record number of executions in the past two months amid international silence about […]
Egypt treats detainees as hostages, uses them to bargain with Biden’s administration, says rights group director
News briefing: Translation and editing by Committee for Justice Geneva, December 15, 2020 The Executive Director of Committee for Justice (CFJ), Ahmed Mefreh, said that Egyptian authorities are treating political detainees […]
The Giulio Regenis of Egypt: Deaths in custody in Egypt since 2013
Press release: by Committee for Justice Geneva 10 December 2020 The Committee for Justice (CFJ) said on Thursday that it has documented a remarkable increase […]
Egypt: Rights groups hold the authorities accountable for the life of Coptic activist Ramy Kamel, marking the one-year anniversary of his imprisonment in reprisal for human rights advocacy and cooperation with the United Nations
Joint Statement This week marks an entire year spent by Coptic activist Ramy Kamel behind bars. The undersigned human rights organizations denounce Ramy’s continued arbitrary […]
Egypt: Sisi is using human rights defenders as a bargaining chip
Egypt’s crackdown on members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) forewarns of a second wave of branding civil society work as “terrorism,” in […]
Action for Egyptian human rights defenders
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the persecution of employees of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and Egyptian civil society by the Egyptian government. […]
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