One year on since he was held in pretrial detention: Human rights organizations call for the release of academic Ahmed al-Tohamy

03/06/2021

The undersigned organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to release Ahmed al-Tohamy Abdel-Hay, an assistant professor of political science at the Faculty of Economic Studies […]

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Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment

02/06/2021

The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of those detained in the Hope Coalition case (case no. 930 of 2019) and for the dismissal […]

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Egypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms

02/06/2021

We the undersigned 64 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the […]

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Egyptian human rights organizations condemn Referring researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his unconditional release

01/06/2021

June 1, 2021 The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), […]

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20 months of successive violations against “Al-Baqer”.. There is no redress except by his immediate release

31/05/2021

The undersigned organizations said that coinciding with the passage of 20 months since the arrest of lawyer and human rights activist, and director of the […]

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For the second time, the Egyptian authorities ban researcher Walid Salem from traveling after the Public Prosecutor added him the travel ban list

27/05/2021

27 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the banning of Walid Salem, a doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, from traveling for […]

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First criminal trial internationally on torture in Egypt: Statement on the trial’s preliminary hearing addressing Italian student Giulio Regeni’s torture and murder.

25/05/2021

Rome, 25 May 2021 Today the preliminary step for a trial in Rome against four senior Egyptian National Security Agency officials will be taken. The […]

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Human rights organizations call on Egyptian authorities to stop trials of TikTok content creators and to guarantee freedom of expression

18/05/2021

18 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the continued prosecution and trial of TikTok and Likee content creators, demanding that the Egyptian authorities […]

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Egyptian rights groups demand an end to the Israeli attacks and apartheid

16/05/2021

Joint statement, 16 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations said in a statement that the bloody violent incidents in the occupied Palestinian territories (East […]

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The sowing of souls continues: Organizations condemning the execution of the death sentence against the monk Isaiah al-Maqari, ignoring requests for a pardon, and an investigation into his torture in order to make him confess

10/05/2021

Joint statement 9 May 2021 The Stop the Death Penalty Campaign and the undersigned organizations express their deep condemnation and rejection of the execution of […]

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Human rights organizations condemn medical neglect of human rights lawyer Muhammad Ramadan in Tora Prison and demand his release

10/05/2021

8 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the prevention of health care to human rights lawyer Muhammad Ramadan, who is being held in […]

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Rights groups condemn Egypt’s crackdown on the family of a detainee after their complaints about his torture and sexual assault

05/05/2021

Joint statement, May 5, 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations strongly reject the move by Egyptian authorities to pursue family members of the detainee Abdul […]

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Egypt: Government must end relentless attempt to “eradicate”  independent civil society

04/05/2021

The Egyptian government will convene an online  panel discussion with United Nations member states on the 4th of May  to discuss its national legal framework […]

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Will Egypt compete for the world’s worst executioner in 2021?

30/04/2021

Joint statement, April 30, 2021 The Campaign to Stop the Death Penalty in Egypt and the undersigned human rights organizations strongly condemn and categorically reject […]

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EGYPT: 74 NGOS URGE EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE RESEARCHER AHMED SAMIR SANTAWY

14/04/2021

We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been […]

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