Egypt: Deaths in custody increase due to deliberate neglect
The high incidence of deaths in detention centres and prisons in Egypt is evidence of the level of neglect that these detention centres and prisons […]
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![Demonstration in support of the Tunisian protests in Lyon, France, January 15th, 2011 [Wikipedia]](https://www.cfjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Demonstrations_Tunisian_revolution_France-1-scaled-e1629144301567-1024x512-400x200.jpeg "Demonstrations_Tunisian_revolution_France")
Tunisia: Human rights organizations commend National Dialogue Quartet for forming a working committee to follow up on situation in Tunisia
The undersigned human rights organizations stand in solidarity with Tunisian civil society, following the decision of President of Tunisia Kais Saied to take unprecedented exceptional […]
Egypt: Changing prison authority’s name is ‘propaganda’ as rights violations continue
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior’s decision to change the name of the Prisons Authority to the Community Protection Authority will do nothing to change the fact […]
Endless Emergency: CFJ analytical paper discusses effects of the state of emergency on human rights in Egypt
The state of emergency has become the dominant feature in Egypt under the various ruling regimes since the end of the nineteenth century until now. […]
![Ramy Shaath (L) [AmnestyAR/Twitter, Zyad El-Elaimy (R) [haythamabokhal1/Twitter]](https://www.cfjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Rami-and-Ziyad-1-e1626280673195-400x200.jpeg "Rami-and-Ziyad")
Egypt: Zyad Elelaimy and Ramy Shaath’s inclusion on the ‘Terrorist List’ is a shameful outcome of a politicized judiciary
Yesterday July 14, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals of human rights defenders Zyad Elelaimy, Ramy Shaath, and eleven others regarding their inclusion on […]
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Egypt: On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, First Step to Combating Torture is Accountability
Coinciding with the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the undersigned independent human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian government’s systematic practice of torture […]
Call for the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and fate of former parliamentarian, Mustafa Al-Naggar, after 1,000 days of enforced disappearance
The undersigned organizations express their deep concern about the continued disappearance of dentist and former parliamentarian, Mostafa Al-Naggar, on its 1000th day, and call on […]
Egypt: President Sisi must order immediate release of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, sentenced to four years in prison
The undersigned rights organizations condemn the sentencing of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison, on 22 June, by the Emergency Supreme State […]
Egypt’s Law 71: An unconstitutional step designed to expand the state’s grip on information
The undersigned organizations condemn Egypt’s issuing of Law No. 71 of 2021, amending some provisions of the Penal Code, published in the Official Gazette on […]
Egypt: In solidarity with Hossam Bahgat, state security targeting of human rights defenders must end
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Public Prosecution’s summoning of prominent human rights defender Hossam Bahgat, the founding executive director of the Egyptian Initiative […]
![Rabaa Sqaure Dispersal [AFP PHOTO / MOSAAB EL-SHAMY/Flickr]](https://www.cfjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/9511676277_8a62991c11_o-e1623779740110-400x200.jpg "TOPSHOTS-EGYPT-POLITICS-UNREST")
Egypt: Moratorium on executions is imperative as unjust death sentence upheld in Rabaa Dispersal Case
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Court of Cassation’s 14 June verdict upholding the death sentence against twelve leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in […]
![Ahmed al-Tohamy Abdel-Hay [Twitter]](https://www.cfjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/-تهامي-عبدالحي-e1622711590656-1024x512-400x200.jpeg "احمد تهامي عبدالحي")
One year on since he was held in pretrial detention: Human rights organizations call for the release of academic Ahmed al-Tohamy
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 […]
Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment
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 […]
Egypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
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 […]
Egyptian human rights organizations condemn Referring researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his unconditional release
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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