Egypt: CFJ condemns arrests of demonstrators in Alexandria, calls for immediate release

19/03/2024

Press release Geneva – March 17, 2024   Security forces in Alexandria, Egypt, detained numerous citizens on Friday, March 15, 2024, during a protest against […]

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CFJ calls on Egyptian authorities to stop renewing El-Sayed Moshagheb’s detention and demands his release

05/01/2024

Press release Editing: CFJ Geneva: January 4, 2024   The Committee for Justice documented the Supreme State Security Prosecution in Egypt summoning El-Sayed Ali Fahim […]

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Egypt: CFJ condemns death sentences against 4 defendants and calls on authorities to halt executions

04/07/2023

News briefing By: The Committee for Justice Geneva: June 27, 2023   The Supreme State Security Criminal Court (Third Terrorism Circuit), held in the Badr […]

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CFJ condemns the death sentences issued in the Minya Cell case, calls for a retrial

09/06/2023

News briefing By: CFJ Geneva: 7 June 2023   The First Circuit of the Terrorism Court, presided over by Counselor Muhammad Al-Saeed Al-Sherbiny, alongside Counselors […]

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Egypt: CFJ denounces new death sentence in the ‘Helwan Brigades’ case

21/03/2023

Press release By: Committee for Justice Geneva: March 19, 2023   The Committee for Justice denounced the death sentence issued by the First Terrorism Circuit […]

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CFJ takes part in Egypt review before UN Human Rights Committee

27/02/2023

Press release By: Committee for Justice Geneva: February 27, 2023 The UN Human Rights Committee is currently reviewing Egypt’s progress in implementing its obligations as […]

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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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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

30/06/2022

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 […]

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Egypt: Death sentence for 10 defendants and life imprisonment for 56 others in the “Helwan Brigades” case

28/06/2022

Press release Editing: Committee for Justice Geneva: 28 June 2022 The First Terrorism Circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court, held at the Tora Police Institute […]

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Egypt: CFJ launches ‘Political Trials Calendar’ for researchers and rights defenders

10/06/2022

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 […]

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Egypt: Preacher sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly joining Free Syrian Army

09/06/2022

Press release By: Committee for Justice Geneva: 9 June 2022 The Cairo Criminal Court has issued a sentence convicting the well-known Egyptian preacher, Mahmoud Shaaban, […]

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Egypt: Court holds first session in the retrial of activist and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawi

06/06/2022

The Supreme State Security Misdemeanors Court on Monday June 6 held its first session in the retrial of the Egyptian activist and researcher, Ahmed Samir […]

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Egypt: President must overturn unjust verdicts against politicians Aboul- Fotouh, Mohamed al-Qassas, Moaz al-Sharqawi, and Yahia Hussein Abdel Hadi

31/05/2022

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 […]

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Conviction without trial

08/02/2022

Egypt: ‘Conviction without trial’, 2021 yearly report by CFJ on Egypt’s ‘terror lists’ In CFJ’s latest report prepared by the Trial Watch team, and entitled […]

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Egypt: New mass death sentences in Minya despite international outcry

04/10/2021

The Committee for Justice (CFJ) has condemned Egypt’s continued issuing of mass death sentences despite apparent violations of due process. The Egyptian Minya Criminal Court […]

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