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Egypt: Calls on the African Human Rights Committee to condemn violations in detention facilities in Egypt

23/05/2022

Press release Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: May 23, 2022 The Committee for Justice and ISHR said that despite repeated calls by […]

Prison bars at Colchester Castle [William Warby/Flickr]

Free Them All: A Fair and Transparent Process to Release Political Prisoners in Egypt

10/05/2022

May 2022 1- Addressing the crisis of the arbitrary detention of political prisoners in Egypt is a necessary, urgent and long overdue step. Egypt has […]

Egypt: Ayman Hadhoud, another victim of extrajudicial killing

14/04/2022

The extreme discrepancy in the official account of the death of the Egyptian economist and member of the Reform and Development Party, Ayman Mohamed Hadhoud, […]

Regeni case in Italy: Extending the judicial process leads to further impunity for killers

12/04/2022

Press release Translated by Committee for Justice Geneva: April 11 2022 The Executive Director of the Committee for Justice, Ahmed Mefreh, stressed that […]

Halt the execution of of 16 men sentenced to death by an Emergency Court

06/04/2022

The undersigned human rights organizations called upon the the President of the Republic to halt the execution of the mass death sentences issued against 16 […]

Egypt: Atrocious prison conditions require genuine rather than superficial changes to the law regulating prisons

28/03/2022

Egypt’s parliament approved the amendment of several provisions of Law no. 369 of 1956 on the regulation of prisons and it was ratified by President […]

After complaints by Committee for Justice, UN pressures Egypt to reveal fate of forcibly disappeared citizens

14/03/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 14 March 2022 The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances expressed its hope that appropriate investigations would […]

Egypt: New wave of executions against 7 defendants in political cases

11/03/2022

The international silence on human rights violations in Egypt, especially the right to life, made the authorities there continue to carry out mass death sentences […]

Egypt: End arbitrary detention, Free them all

10/03/2022

Twelve Egyptian activists have been on hunger strike since early February 2022 in protest of their prolonged pre-trial detention at Tora Prison Complex. Among them, […]

Egypt: Government must immediately close Case 173 and end assault on human rights organizations and defenders

24/02/2022

The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s failure to close Case no. 173 of 2011, commonly known as the “NGO Foreign Funding Case”, […]

UN issues statement on detained Al Jazeera journalists after CFJ communication

23/02/2022

As part of its continuous success in bringing the voices of the oppressed to UN mechanisms in order to work for their redress and lift […]

Al-Sisi’s Visit to Brussels: No Red Carpet for Human Rights Violations

16/02/2022

As EU officials prepare to welcome African heads of state for the EU-AU summit in Brussels on 17-18 February, 2022, 6 NGOs call on EU […]

The European Union flag in the European Parliament in Strasbourg [European Parliament/Flickr]

Civil Society Organizations Call on the European Union to Withdraw its Joint Candidacy with Egypt to Chair the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum

11/02/2022

In light of Egypt’s alarming record of severe human rights violations, often “justified” in the name of counterterrorism, the undersigned civil society organizations are appalled […]

Fans watch as South Sudan plays its first national game against Kenya.

Extend the mandate of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

10/02/2022

In a letter released ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s 49th session (28 February-1 April 2022), a record number of 80 NGOs urge states to extend the mandate of […]

Joint statement: Participation of UN Secretary-General in Youth Forum provided cover for el-Sisi regime

04/02/2022

Egypt’s World Youth Forum, held on 10-13 January 2022 in Sharm El-Sheikh “under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi”, stands in stark contrast with […]

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