Egypt: Fourth quarterly bulletin documents Alaa Abdel-Fattah’s hunger strike and violations against defenders and lawyers

24/01/2023

The Committee for Justice has released the fourth bulletin of the Human Rights Defenders Watch project, which documented violations against human rights defenders from October […]

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Research paper: Activism of human rights defenders in the Egyptian diaspora

10/12/2022

While some human rights defenders carry out their peaceful activism under authoritarian regimes, some of them may choose or be forced to seek refuge abroad […]

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CFJ issues third Human Rights Defenders Watch bulletin

24/10/2022

The Committee for Justice has issued the third quarterly bulletin of the Human Rights Defenders Watch project. HRD Watch aims to support those who are […]

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The second quarterly report 2022 within the ” Detention Watch Project” in Egypt

03/10/2022

By the second quarter of 2022, Egyptian security services and their legislative and judicial arms continued to blatantly violate the rights of citizens, amid a […]

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Urgent action to release Yehia Helwa for health reasons for fear of his life

23/09/2022

The Egyptian human rights organizations signatory to this statement demand a prompt release of Yehia Helwa, a political activist and member of the Bread and […]

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Human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecutor to close the investigation into the Mada Masr journalists’ case

15/09/2022

The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Attorney General to close Case No. 19 of 2022 (Cairo Appeal Investigations) involving four women journalists […]

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Egypt: CFJ research finds hundreds arbitrarily detained since President Sisi launched pardon committee

15/09/2022

Press release, Committee for Justice Geneva: August 16, 2022 Since the launch of the national dialogue initiative sponsored by President Abdelfattah el-Sisi in April and […]

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UN experts warn Sudanese authorities against targeting a women’s rights defender over her cooperation with UN mechanisms

05/09/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 5 September 2022   UN experts have warned that intimidation and harassment of Sudanese human […]

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Human Rights Defenders Training Platform

17/08/2022

The Committee for Justice is proud to announce the establishment of the Human Rights Defenders Training Platform as part of its Human Rights Defenders Watch […]

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Egypt: UN calls for an end to violations against detained human rights lawyer Youssef Mansour

08/08/2022

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: August 8, 2022 United Nations human rights experts affirm that the arrest, enforced disappearance and […]

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UN denounces Israeli harassment of human rights defenders in Masafer Yatta

02/08/2022

Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: August 2, 2022 UN experts have denounced Israel’s harassment of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers in […]

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Egypt: Human rights organizations condemn authorities for targeting journalists, bloggers, and online content creators, and demand immediate release of those detained

01/08/2022

The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities for the continued imprisonment of journalists, bloggers, online content creators, and others under Case no. 440 […]

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28 Civil society organizations condemn the continued blocking of Al-Manassa website and call on the Egyptian authorities to lift the blocking of dozens of news websites

01/08/2022

1 August 2022 The undersigned civil society organizations condemn the blocking by the Egyptian authorities of three links to access the Al-Manassa website within approximately […]

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CFJ: President Biden should acknowledge UN resolutions issued for detainees in Egypt and Saudi Arabia

27/07/2022

Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 21 July 2022 Yasmine Omar, the United Nations and Regional Manager at the Committee for Justice, stressed […]

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21 CSOs urge German Ministers to raise human rights and release of prisoners with Egypt’s Sisi ahead of COP27

14/07/2022

Dear Foreign Affairs Minister Baerbock and State Minister and Special Envoy Morgan, Ahead of the 18-19 July 2022 Petersberg Climate Dialogue, which you will co-chair […]

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