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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Civil society to the UK Foreign Office: Free human rights defender Alaa Abd El-Fattah

27/05/2022

To Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom Elizabeth Truss, and the UK Foreign Office 27 May, 2022 British-Egyptian […]

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Egypt: Calls on the African Human Rights Committee to condemn violations in detention facilities in Egypt

23/05/2022

Press release Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: May 23, 2022 The Committee for Justice and ISHR said that despite repeated calls by […]

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Free Them All: A Fair and Transparent Process to Release Political Prisoners in Egypt

10/05/2022

May 2022 1- Addressing the crisis of the arbitrary detention of political prisoners in Egypt is a necessary, urgent and long overdue step. Egypt has […]

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Egyptian prisons: rehabilitation centres or graves for human rights

09/05/2022

The 2021 annual report by the Committee for Justice has shed light on the latest developments in Egypt’s human rights climate, above all was the […]

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Egypt: Paper highlights role of families of victims of human rights abuses in political change

01/05/2022

A paper published by the Committee for Justice today, titled “Egypt: How families of victims of human rights violations have organized to become an active […]

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Egypt: Ayman Hadhoud, another victim of extrajudicial killing

14/04/2022

The extreme discrepancy in the official account of the death of the Egyptian economist and member of the Reform and Development Party, Ayman Mohamed Hadhoud, […]

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Egypt: UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention demands immediate release of Zyad el-Elaimy and Louaya Abdel Halim

13/04/2022

After a request from the Committee for Justice, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion on the arrest of two members […]

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Regeni case in Italy: Extending the judicial process leads to further impunity for killers 

12/04/2022

Press release   Translated by Committee for Justice   Geneva: April 11 2022 The Executive Director of the Committee for Justice, Ahmed Mefreh, stressed that […]

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Halt the execution of of 16 men sentenced to death by an Emergency Court

06/04/2022

The undersigned human rights organizations called upon the the President of the Republic to halt the execution of the mass death sentences issued against 16 […]

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Egypt: Atrocious prison conditions require genuine rather than superficial changes to the law regulating prisons

28/03/2022

Egypt’s parliament approved the amendment of several provisions of Law no. 369 of 1956 on the regulation of prisons and it was ratified by President […]

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Committee for Justice and Dignity urge UN Human Rights Council to create a mechanism to investigate human rights violations in Egypt   

23/03/2022

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: March 23, 2022  The Committee for Justice and Dignity have called on the United Nations Human Rights […]

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Egypt: UN concerned about recent wave of executions amid calls to ensure fair trial standards 

15/03/2022

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 15 March 2022  The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, expressed […]

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After complaints by Committee for Justice, UN pressures Egypt to reveal fate of forcibly disappeared citizens 

14/03/2022

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 14 March 2022  The UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances expressed its hope that appropriate investigations would […]

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