Egypt: CFJ launches ‘Political Trials Calendar’ for researchers and rights defenders
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 […]
Egypt
Egypt: Preacher sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly joining Free Syrian Army
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, […]
Egypt: Human Rights Defenders Bulletin
January – March 2022 During the first quarter of 2022, the Committee for Justice documented a number of violations against 5 human rights defenders. Human […]
Human Rights Defenders Watch
How Are The Human Rights Defenders? Human rights defenders are defined globally based on the United Nations General Assembly Declaration on Human Rights Defenders as […]
Egypt: Court holds first session in the retrial of activist and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawi
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 […]
Egypt: President must overturn unjust verdicts against politicians Aboul- Fotouh, Mohamed al-Qassas, Moaz al-Sharqawi, and Yahia Hussein Abdel Hadi
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 […]
Civil society to the UK Foreign Office: Free human rights defender Alaa Abd El-Fattah
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 […]
Egypt: Calls on the African Human Rights Committee to condemn violations in detention facilities in Egypt
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
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 […]
Egyptian prisons: rehabilitation centres or graves for human rights
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 […]
Egypt: Paper highlights role of families of victims of human rights abuses in political change
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 […]
Egypt: Ayman Hadhoud, another victim of extrajudicial killing
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, […]
Egypt: UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention demands immediate release of Zyad el-Elaimy and Louaya Abdel Halim
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 […]
Regeni case in Italy: Extending the judicial process leads to further impunity for killers
Press release Translated by Committee for Justice Geneva: April 11 2022 The Executive Director of the Committee for Justice, Ahmed Mefreh, stressed that […]
Halt the execution of of 16 men sentenced to death by an Emergency Court
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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