In its periodic bulletin, Committee for Justice stated that Egyptian authorities continued, between April and June 2025, their policy of arbitrary arrests and prolonged pretrial detention targeting lawyers, journalists, trade unionists, and defenders of economic and social rights.
The Committee documented the arrests of lawyers Ayman Essam and Seif Mamdouh, the continued detention of activist Marwa Abu Zeid, as well as the summoning of journalist Rasha Qandil and unionist Khaled Amin for questioning, in addition to the detention of three Algerian lawyers at Cairo Airport. It also recorded the ongoing unlawful pretrial detention of prominent human rights defenders, including Ibrahim Metwally and Fathi al-Ghayati, alongside deteriorating health conditions of detainees such as Hoda Abdel Moneim and Mohamed Abu Hreirah.
The violations also included the arbitrary dismissal of journalist Safaa al-Korbeigy and trade unionist Mahmoud Youssef Othman, as well as a ten-year prison sentence handed down to student activist Moaz al-Sharqawi in a trial lacking fair trial guarantees.
The Committee affirmed that these practices reveal an authoritarian approach aimed at silencing independent voices and undermining the rule of law, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of arbitrarily detained persons, an end to prolonged pretrial detention conditions, improved detention conditions, and protection of trade union and media freedoms.
It is worth noting that the Human Rights Defenders Bulletin is a periodic publication issued by the Committee for Justice, dedicated to monitoring violations committed against organizations and individuals working in the human rights field in Egypt, as well as developments in human rights cases, as part of its “Justice for Human Rights Defenders” project.
