Human rights organizations condemn the arrest of Gasser Abdel Razek, Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights while affirming their continuous work defending human rights

19/11/2020

Cairo 19 November 2020 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the arrest of Gasser Abdel Razek, Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights […]

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Crimes of abducting human rights defenders won’t go unpunished

16/11/2020

Crimes of abducting human rights defenders won’t go unpunished… The Public Prosecutor must immediately release EIPR’s administrative manager Cairo: 16 November 2020 The undersigned human […]

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Human rights organizations call on Egypt’s government to end internet censorship and website blocking

04/11/2020

The undersigning human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian authorities’ blocking of at least 600 websites since May 2017 including media, political and human rights platforms. […]

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Egypt: Days before a verdict in the trial of engineer Mamdouh Hamza, government’s vindictive use of terrorism charges against peaceful critics denounced by human rights organizations

22/10/2020

The undersigned human rights organizations call for charges to be dismissed in the trial of engineer Mamdouh Hamza, whose verdict is scheduled for October 26th. […]

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Egypt: ill-treatment and arbitrary measures trigger new hunger strike at Istiqbal Tora prison

14/10/2020

Joint statement: The undersigned human rights organizations categorically reject the continued policy of humiliation practiced by Egyptian authorities against detainees, especially political prisoners. Such policy […]

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Egypt: Government must stop arbitrary arrests and respect freedom of expression

21/09/2020

The undersigned human rights organizations renew their demand for the Egyptian government to respect the rights of free expression and privacy, and for state security […]

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Egypt: Public prosecution must fulfil its role in conducting independent investigations, not state security investigations

07/09/2020

The undersigned human rights organizations denounce and call for an immediate end to the Egyptian government’s relentless retaliatory campaign targeting opposition, political activists, human rights […]

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Human rights organizations call for shelving the investigation with the editor-in-chief of “Al-Manassa”     

04/07/2020

The undersigned organizations condemn in the strongest terms the arrest of Nora Younis, editor-in-chief of Al-Manassa website, after the security forces raided the headquarters of the website, […]

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Rights defender Ahmed Amasha re-arrested, forcibly disappeared for second time

01/07/2020

The undersigned human rights organisations denounce the arrest and disappearance by Egyptian authorities of trade unionist and human rights defender Ahmed Amasha, after his family […]

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Egypt: In solidarity with Gamal Eid,

29/06/2020

Rights organizations affirm reprisals will not stop human rights movement from exposing violations and authoritarian practices Joint Statement The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the […]

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IMF: Delay Vote on Loan to Egypt

24/06/2020

Link Approval to Robust Anti-Corruption Measures (Washington, DC, June 24, 2020) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should delay a vote on a US$5.2 billion […]

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Egypt: In security campaign to protect family values, Public Prosecution abdicates its duty to protect citizens

24/06/2020

Joint Statement The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the ongoing security campaign led by Egypt’s Public Prosecution against users of the social media platform Tiktok,  […]

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Human Rights Organizations Condemn The General Prosecutor’s Inaction After Abducting Sana Seif In Front Of His Office And Demand Her Immediate Release

23/06/2020

The undersigned NGOs condemn the series of violations the arbitrarily detained activist Alaa Abd-El Fattah’s family has faced. The last of which was today, when […]

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Egypt: the campaign against Gamal Eid must stop!”

23/06/2020

the undersigned organizations strongly condemn the campaign recently launched by the Egyptian authorities against the director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), […]

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Egypt: Public Prosecutor and Minister of Interior must disclose names and numbers of Covid-19 cases in Egyptian detention facilities

15/06/2020

Joint Statement The undersigned rights organizations condemn the response of the Egyptian government towards the plight of detainees inside the country’s prisons and other detention […]

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