Egypt: Archaic Amendments to Personal Status Law Undermine Women’s Rights

04/03/2021

The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23rd and presented before Egypt’s House of Representatives […]

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CFJ spokeswoman: Civil society exists in Egypt despite repression

01/03/2021

News briefing: Translation and editing by: Committee for Justice Geneva, 1 March 2021 The spokeswoman of the Committee for Justice (CFJ), Yasmine Hajar, said that […]

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Release Manar to join her child

01/03/2021

On the 9th of March 2019 a family was abducted by security forces from their home in Alexandria. The family included the father Omar Abdel […]

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Egypt: Implementing regulations of NGO law intended to cripple civil society

25/02/2021

25 February 2021 The undersigned rights organizations strongly condemn the Egyptian government’s relentless closure of all outlets for civil society activity in the country, as […]

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CFJ Executive Director: Human rights is the only means of pressuring the Egyptian regime now

24/02/2021

News briefing Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: February 24, 2021 The Executive Director of Committee for Justice (CFJ), Ahmed Mefreh, spoke through a series […]

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CFJ Executive Director: Human rights is the only means of pressuring the Egyptian regime now

24/02/2021

News briefing Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: February 24, 2021 The Executive Director of Committee for Justice (CFJ), Ahmed Mefreh, spoke through a series […]

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UN experts criticize the continued imprisonment of Egyptian activists, including Oxygen and Patrick Zaki, and demand an end to the violations against them

23/02/2021

Country: Egypt News briefing Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: February 23, 2021 A group of United Nations human rights experts have expressed their grave […]

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UN experts concerned about the death of 3 detainees in Egypt’s prisons due to health care denial

23/02/2021

News briefing Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: February 21, 2021 A group of UN experts sent a memorandum to the Egyptian authorities regarding the […]

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Report on the violations in Case No. 22/2015 Criminal/Military/Total/Ismailia, registered under Case No. 4/2015, Criminal/Military/Partial/Mansoura

22/02/2021

On 4/6/2014, clashes took place between demonstrators and security forces in front of the Toshka Gate outside the Mansoura University campus, where the defendants were […]

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Report on the violations in Case No. 3654/2014, Criminal/Military/Ismailia, registered under No. 58/2014 Criminal/Military/Partial/al-Mansoura

20/02/2021

The events of that incident date back to September 2014, when reports were received about the presence of adhesive material on the numbers of automated […]

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Egypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families End Hostage-Like Arrests

19/02/2021

(Beirut, February 19, 2021) The Egyptian authorities’ targeting of families in Egypt of activists and human rights defenders living abroad has been escalating, demonstrating a […]

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Egyptian authorities weaponize acts of reprisal to silence human rights advocates, academics, and their families

17/02/2021

On Sunday 14 February, National security forces raided the house of human rights advocate Mohamed Sultan’s cousins and uncles and arrested one of them. A […]

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CFJ spokeswoman: Egypt does not abide by international standards of fair trials

17/02/2021

A spokeswoman for the Committee for Justice (CFJ) Yasmine Hajar, has emphasized that the principle of the right to a fair trial is one of […]

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Egypt: Enforced disappearance of lawyer Islam Salama condemned by rights organizations amid calls on the Ministry of Interior to implement his release

17/02/2021

17 February 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned by the Egyptian government’s constant abuse of lawyer Islam Salama, who has been forcibly […]

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Report on the violations in Case No. 269/2015 Criminal/ Military/Ismailia، registered as 96/2015 Criminal/Military/ Mansoura

16/02/2021

The events date back to 6/12/2014 when a fire broke out in the power transformer of the village of Aweesh al-Hajar in Dakahliya governorate, causing […]

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