Egypt: 43 days after former MP’s disappearance, state denies knowledge of his fate while emphasizing his fugitive status

21/11/2018

The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to disclose the location and fate of Dr. Mustafa Al Naggar, a former member of […]

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Egypt: Redraft civil society law to protect, not punish, independent organizations

14/11/2018

With President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently issuing a decree to amend Law 70 of 2017 regulating civic organizations, the undersigned rights organizations emphasize the futility […]

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Egypt: 12-year old child forcibly disappeared and held in solitary confinement in state’s “fight against terrorism”

08/11/2018

October 30, 2018 Save Abdullah Boumedine The undersigned organizations condemn the unlawful measures taken by the Egyptian authorities against Abdullah Boumedine Nasr al-Din, age 12, […]

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SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL REPRESSION OF EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT

06/11/2018

November 2, 2018 Mrs. Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, Gambia SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL […]

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Death sentence for 20 Egyptians upheld in latest affront to UN calls to abolish capital punishment

01/10/2018

Geneva 1 October 2018 The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with […]

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Egypt: The United Nations working group on enforced disappearances affirms the systematic commitment of such crimes by Egyptian authorities against activists and human rights defenders.

17/09/2018

Committee for Justice Press Release Geneva 17 September 2018 Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that the annual report issued by the United Nations Working Group […]

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Statement on U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo’s Decision to Release Suspended Military Aid to Egypt

14/09/2018

Joint Statement The undersigned independent Egyptian human rights organizations express our consternation over U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release $195 million in […]

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Egypt: Ruling in Rabaa Dispersal Case underscores need for immediate end to mass death sentences

13/09/2018

Joint Statement The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the mass death sentence issued in Case no. 34150/2015, commonly known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The undersigned […]

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Egypt:  Release Amal Fathy, victim of the state’s widening prosecution to silence human rights defenders

13/08/2018

Geneva 11 August 2018 The undersigned rights organizations condemn Amal Fathy’s referral to trial in case no. 7991/2018. Fathy is the wife of human rights […]

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President must not ratify laws destroying last bastions of free speech in Egypt

23/07/2018

Geneva 23 July 2018 The undersigned organizations denounce the three laws regulating media passed by the Egyptian Parliament on July 16th. We declare our full […]

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Egypt: Allow celebration of World Nubian Day and immediately end discrimination against Nubians

11/07/2018

Geneva 11 July 2018 The undersigned organizations condemn the continuation of discriminatory policies against Egypt’s indigenous Nubian community, exemplified by the Egyptian security authorities’ prohibition […]

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International Community Must Act to Save Former President Morsi’s Life and Thousands of other Egyptian Prisoners

09/07/2018

International Community Must Act to Save Former President Morsi’s Life and Thousands of other Egyptian Prisoners. Joint Statement The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the systematic […]

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Egypt | Prosecution of Nubian activists must be immediately suspended in line with UN recommendation.

07/06/2018

7 June 2018 The undersigned rights organizations demand that the Egyptian authorities heed the recommendation of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to immediately […]

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Detention of Amal Fathy is state retribution for exercising the right to free speech

14/05/2018

Joint Statement The undersigned human rights organizations condemn arrest of Amal Fathy on May 11th and call for her immediate release. Egyptian state security forces […]

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Stop execution of death sentences rendered by special trials lacking the minimum guarantees of justice

28/03/2018

Joint Statement Geneva 28 March 2018 The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the decision of the Supreme Military Court of Appeals issued on Monday 26 March […]

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