Egypt: the campaign against Gamal Eid must stop!”
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), […]
Joint Statement
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Egypt: Public Prosecutor and Minister of Interior must disclose names and numbers of Covid-19 cases in Egyptian detention facilities
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 […]
Human rights organizations hold ministry of interior and the prosecution responsible for the death of director Shady Habash in detention
He won’t be the last with the persistence of medical neglect in prisons The public prosecutor must immediately release prisoners who have been held in […]
Egypt: At the risk of public health, prisoners of conscience continue to be added to Egypt’s overcrowded prisons
Joint Statement Amid widespread calls to reduce the country’s prison population in order to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the Egyptian government has instead embarked on […]
Amendments to Emergency Law exploit Covid-19 to undermine judicial independence | Egypt
9 May 2020 Update* The below statement has been amended on May 10, 2020, to reflect the final version of the law after its publication […]
Egypt: Illegally imprisoned without trial, Shady Habash’s death underscores the urgency of releasing pretrial detainees
Joint Statement The undersigned rights organizations reiterate our demand for the immediate release of persons held in pretrial detention, especially prisoners of conscience. 24- year-old […]
Egypt: Free expression regarded by government as a greater threat to public safety than murder or violence
Presidential pardons and conditional releases Joint Statement The signatory human rights organizations denounce the exclusion of prisoners of conscience from the April 14th pardon issued […]
Civil society’s call to states: we are in this together, don’t violate human rights while responding to COVID-19.
Human Rights Council virtual informal conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Thursday, 09 April 2020 Joint NGO statement on civil and political […]
Joint NGO statement on the United Nations’ COVID-19 response
Human Rights Council virtual informal conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Thursday, 09 April 2020 The COVID-19 crisis is powerfully demonstrating the […]
Egypt: Overcrowded prisons will become epicenters of coronavirus outbreak unless some detainees immediately released
Joint Statement The signatory human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s reckless refusal to release select groups of detainees for the sake of curbing the […]
COVID-19: Urgent measures must be taken by MENA governments to protect the prison population
In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic outbreak—qualified as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO)—we, the undersigned organizations, […]
Egypt: Prison sentence against human rights defender Zyad Elelaimy represents politically-motivated vengeance
Joint Statement The undersigned rights organizations denounce the one-year prison sentence of human rights lawyer Zyad Elelaimy and demand his unconditional release and the dropping […]
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW CONCLUDES WITHOUT MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT FROM EGYPT
Human rights organisations regret Egypt’s lack of constructive engagement during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and denounce Egypt’s reprisals against NGOs and human right defenders […]
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 […]
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 […]
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