Egypt: Comprehensively close the NGO Foreign Funding Case
The undersigned human rights organizations demand a genuine and comprehensive closure of Case no. 173 of 2011, known as the “NGO Foreign Funding Case”, and […]
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Joint statement: Human rights organizations reject the Criminal Court’s upholding of the Public Prosecution’s decision to close the investigation into Ayman Hadhoud’s death
30 June 2022 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the decision issued by Circuit 28 of the New Cairo Criminal Court on 23 June 2022 […]
Egypt: Mohamed El-Baqer: 1000 days of arbitrary detention
June 23, 2022 – Human rights defender Mohamed El-Baqer must be released immediately and unconditionally, stated 19 human rights organisations. His detention is arbitrary, aimed […]
Egypt: CFJ launches ‘Political Trials Calendar’ for researchers and rights defenders
The Committee for Justice has launched the Political Trials Calendar online tool to facilitate the search for the dates of the sessions of important human […]
Egypt: President must overturn unjust verdicts against politicians Aboul- Fotouh, Mohamed al-Qassas, Moaz al-Sharqawi, and Yahia Hussein Abdel Hadi
The undersigned organizations condemn the unjust sentences handed down on 29 May by the Emergency State Security Felony Court in Case no. 1059 of 2021 […]
Civil society to the UK Foreign Office: Free human rights defender Alaa Abd El-Fattah
To Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom Elizabeth Truss, and the UK Foreign Office 27 May, 2022 British-Egyptian […]
Egypt: Calls on the African Human Rights Committee to condemn violations in detention facilities in Egypt
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 […]
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Free Them All: A Fair and Transparent Process to Release Political Prisoners in Egypt
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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