On International Women’s Day: Women in Egypt live an unjust reality, and face a dark future
On the occasion of International Women’s Day () on 8 March, the Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that Egyptian women are subjected to an unprecedented […]
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Egypt: Archaic Amendments to Personal Status Law Undermine Women’s Rights
The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23rd and presented before Egypt’s House of Representatives […]
Release Manar to join her child
On the 9th of March 2019 a family was abducted by security forces from their home in Alexandria. The family included the father Omar Abdel […]
Egypt: Implementing regulations of NGO law intended to cripple civil society
25 February 2021 The undersigned rights organizations strongly condemn the Egyptian government’s relentless closure of all outlets for civil society activity in the country, as […]
Egypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families End Hostage-Like Arrests
(Beirut, February 19, 2021) The Egyptian authorities’ targeting of families in Egypt of activists and human rights defenders living abroad has been escalating, demonstrating a […]
Egyptian authorities weaponize acts of reprisal to silence human rights advocates, academics, and their families
On Sunday 14 February, National security forces raided the house of human rights advocate Mohamed Sultan’s cousins and uncles and arrested one of them. A […]
Egypt: Enforced disappearance of lawyer Islam Salama condemned by rights organizations amid calls on the Ministry of Interior to implement his release
17 February 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned by the Egyptian government’s constant abuse of lawyer Islam Salama, who has been forcibly […]
Report on the violations in Case No. 2 of 2020/Central Cairo/Emergency State Security (Mamdouh Hamza case)
Press statement: Mamdouh Hamza case Report on the violations in Case No. 2 of 2020/Central Cairo/Emergency State Security, registered under No. 4148 of 2020, Felonies/Qasr […]
Egypt: Release Ahmed Samir Santawy and end crackdown on researchers
12 February 2021 The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecution to release Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s researcher at the Central […]
Egypt | Human Rights Council: Countries Should Take Bold Action
Monitoring, Tough Message on Dire Rights Situation Long Overdue (Geneva – February 9, 2021) Egypt’s human rights community is facing “annihilation” by President Abdel Fattah […]
Egypt: State authorities must be held to account for violence perpetrated against detained journalist Solafa Magdy
The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecutor to urgently open credible investigations into the physical assaults, acts of harassment, and abuse […]
Mefreh: Everyone in Egypt is targeted, including children
Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: January 26, 2021 The executive director of the Committee for Justice (CFJ), Ahmed Mefreh, said that there are no red lines in Egypt now, and that everyone […]
Egypt’s human rights situation hits record low on the 10th anniversary of the revolution
On the 10th anniversary of the 25 January revolution, the Committee for Justice (CFJ) condemned Egypt’s intensified crackdown on hundreds of citizens as part of its […]
After one-year anniversary of unwarranted arrest and solitary confinement, Ramy Kamel must be freed
As November 23, 2020 marked one year of solitary confinement for Ramy Kamel, a Coptic Egyptian Human rights defender, 15 organizations urge American and European […]
The Giulio Regenis of Egypt: Deaths in custody in Egypt since 2013
Press release: by Committee for Justice Geneva 10 December 2020 The Committee for Justice (CFJ) said on Thursday that it has documented a remarkable increase […]
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