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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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”, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Biden Administration’s Decision to Reprogram Military Aid to Egypt Is Necessary but Insufficient

01/02/2022

Following the January 30 deadline, the Biden administration decided that it will reprogram $130 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Foreign Military Financing (FMF) originally […]

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Egypt: After CFJ complaint, UN takes action regarding the detention of 4 human rights defenders  

28/01/2022

The Committee for Justice said that the issuance of a UN memorandum by a group of United Nations human rights experts regarding the continued detention […]

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Egypt: On the 11th anniversary of the revolution, leaked video proves torture is systematic

27/01/2022

The Committee for Justice (CFJ) condemns the ongoing torture epidemic perpetrated by the security agencies in Egypt, following leaked videos of detainees being tortured in […]

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Egypt: Quash verdicts and stop unjust trials by emergency courts

27/01/2022

We, the undersigned organizations call on Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi to immediately quash the verdicts against seven arbitrarily detained human rights defenders, activists and politicians, […]

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Egypt: Presidential pardon demanded following verdict upholding imprisonment of human rights defender Amal Fathy

13/01/2022

The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the ruling on 11 January  by the Egyptian Court of Cassation upholding the imprisonment of human rights  defender Amal […]

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EGYPT: AUTHORITIES MUST REPEAL THE OUTRAGEOUS NGO LAW

10/01/2022

In response to reports that the Egyptian government has decided to delay by six months the deadline requiring civil society organisations (CSOs) to register under […]

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