Detention Justice Press Releases Archives

Detention Justice Press Releases

Here you can read all the press releases from the Detention Justice project

Prison bars at Colchester Castle [William Warby/Flickr]

Escalating Protests Inside Prisons: Human Rights Organizations Call for the Protection of Detainees, Investigations into Abuses, and an End to the Pretrial Detention Crisis

12/10/2026

The undersigned human rights organizations express their grave concern over reports and information they have received and documented regarding protests in several prisons in recent […]

Egypt: Torture of Journalists Indicative of State Policy rather than Isolated Incident

08/10/2026

Human rights organizations call for immediate investigation into security agencies’ abuses of Matsadaksh journalists The torture and enforced disappearance of journalists from the Matsadaksh platform […]

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Joint Statement: Ahead of His Trial Hearing, Rights Groups Call for the Immediate Release of Photojournalist Hamdi El-Zaeem After Ten Years of Deprivation of Liberty

26/09/2026

26 September 2026 The undersigned organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release photojournalist Hamdi Mokhtar Ali, known as “Hamdi El-Zaeem,” and bring to […]

Egypt: Rights Groups Welcome UN Special Rapporteur’s Report on Water and Sanitation and Call for Implementation of Recommendations

14/09/2026

The undersigned organizations welcome the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation following his official […]

REFORM OR RHETORIC? A civil society benchmark for criminal justice reform in egypt’s 2027–2032 national human rights strategy

02/09/2026

Egypt’s criminal justice system is in dire need of reform. While Egypt’s Constitution and international obligations prohibit torture and arbitrary detention and guarantee fair trial […]

Joint Statement | Egypt: After 100 Days, Omar Salah Marei’s Arbitrary Detention Must End

25/08/2026

We, the undersigned organizations, renew our call for the immediate and unconditional release of Egyptian filmmaker and screenwriter Omar Salah Marei and for an end […]

Rights Groups Call for Release of Detained Shi’a Muslims in Egypt, including Journalist Haidar Qandil

11/08/2026

The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the arrest, and enforced disappearance, of at least 36 Shi’a Muslim in Egypt, including journalist Mohammed Haidar Qandil. On 22 […]

Egypt: CFJ Submits Allegation Letter to UN Special Procedures on Eight Deaths in Custody in June

12/07/2026

The Committee for Justice (CFJ) submitted a general allegation letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Rapporteurs on […]

African Children’s Rights Committee Admits Case of Tortured Egyptian Child

09/07/2026

The Committee for Justice (CFJ), the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights (SFHR), and the Kennedy Human Rights Center (KHRC) welcome the African Committee of Experts […]

Oral Statement HRC62: CFJ Urges the Human Rights Council to address the Death Penalty through the Lens of the Prohibition of Torture and Deaths in Detention Facilities in Egypt

24/06/2026

The Committee for Justice (CFJ) submitted an oral statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council, under Agenda Item 3, during the Interactive Dialogue with […]

Egypt: Rights Groups Call for the Release of Filmmaker Omar Salah Marei and Immediate Access to Medical Care

25/05/2026

We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the continued detention of Egyptian filmmaker and screenwriter Omar Salah Marei. We call for his immediate and unconditional release, […]

Journalist Yasser Abu Al‑Ela and Others on Trial Expose the False Narrative of Human Rights Progress in Egypt

09/05/2026

The trial of Yasser Abu Al‑Ela, who has been held in pretrial detention for more than two years, stands in direct contradiction to the Egyptian […]

The Undersigned Organizations Condemn the Forced Deportation of Sudanese Writer Idris Ali Babikir Following Grave Violations During Detention in Egypt

22/04/2026

The Undersigned Organizations expressed deep concern over the violations suffered by Sudanese writer and novelist Idris Ali Babikir during his detention in Egypt, which lasted […]

Civil Society Organizations Worldwide Call for the Immediate Release of Ahmed Douma

08/04/2026

We, the undersigned civil society organizations from around the world, call on Egyptian authorities to immediately release prominent activist, poet and political writer Ahmed Douma […]

Sudan: CFJ and AWAFY Highlight Patterns of Extrajudicial Killings, Torture, Ethnically Targeted Executions in Joint Submission to UN Special Rapporteur

06/03/2026

The AWAFY Sudanese Organization and Committee for Justice (CFJ) submitted a joint report on 27 February 2026 to respond to the Special Rapporteur’s call for […]

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