Egypt: Three men detained over TikTok mosque singing video on charges of ‘spreading false news’

20/06/2022

Press release By: Committee for Justice Geneva: June 20, 2022 The Supreme State Security Prosecution in Egypt has concluded its investigations with 3 young men […]

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CFJ urges Sudan to stop deporting Egyptian dissidents to Cairo

20/06/2022

The Committee for Justice last week documented the deportation of 11 Egyptian nationals by Sudanese authorities from Khartoum to Cairo. Those deported included women and […]

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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: Human Rights Defenders Bulletin

08/06/2022

January – March 2022 During the first quarter of 2022, the Committee for Justice documented a number of violations against 5 human rights defenders. Human […]

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Human Rights Defenders Watch

08/06/2022

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 […]

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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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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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