UN calls on Egypt to halt and review pending death sentences
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva, 13 July 2021 United Nations human rights experts have called on the Egyptian authorities to […]
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CFJ director: Human rights violations in the MENA region are due to lack of political will, not shortage of laws
News briefing Written and translated by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 30 June 2021 The Executive Director of the Committee for Justice, Ahmed Mefreh, participated in […]
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Egypt: On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, First Step to Combating Torture is Accountability
Coinciding with the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the undersigned independent human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian government’s systematic practice of torture […]
Call for the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and fate of former parliamentarian, Mustafa Al-Naggar, after 1,000 days of enforced disappearance
The undersigned organizations express their deep concern about the continued disappearance of dentist and former parliamentarian, Mostafa Al-Naggar, on its 1000th day, and call on […]
Egypt: President Sisi must order immediate release of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, sentenced to four years in prison
The undersigned rights organizations condemn the sentencing of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison, on 22 June, by the Emergency Supreme State […]
Egypt’s Law 71: An unconstitutional step designed to expand the state’s grip on information
The undersigned organizations condemn Egypt’s issuing of Law No. 71 of 2021, amending some provisions of the Penal Code, published in the Official Gazette on […]
Egypt: In solidarity with Hossam Bahgat, state security targeting of human rights defenders must end
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Public Prosecution’s summoning of prominent human rights defender Hossam Bahgat, the founding executive director of the Egyptian Initiative […]
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Egypt: Moratorium on executions is imperative as unjust death sentence upheld in Rabaa Dispersal Case
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Court of Cassation’s 14 June verdict upholding the death sentence against twelve leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in […]
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One year on since he was held in pretrial detention: Human rights organizations call for the release of academic Ahmed al-Tohamy
The undersigned organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to release Ahmed al-Tohamy Abdel-Hay, an assistant professor of political science at the Faculty of Economic Studies […]
Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment
The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of those detained in the Hope Coalition case (case no. 930 of 2019) and for the dismissal […]
Egypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms
We the undersigned 64 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the […]
Egyptian human rights organizations condemn Referring researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his unconditional release
June 1, 2021 The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), […]
UN experts condemn Egypt’s execution of a Coptic after his conviction based on an alleged forced confession
News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: May 30, 2021 United Nations human rights experts have condemned the execution by the Egyptian authorities of […]
20 months of successive violations against “Al-Baqer”.. There is no redress except by his immediate release
The undersigned organizations said that coinciding with the passage of 20 months since the arrest of lawyer and human rights activist, and director of the […]
CFJ spokeswoman: Regeni’s case reflects the violations committed against Egypt’s society as a whole
News briefing Translated and edited by: The Committee for Justice Geneva, May 30, 2021 The spokeswoman for the Committee for Justice (CFJ), Yasmine Hajar, said […]
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