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
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 […]
Egypt: Atrocious prison conditions require genuine rather than superficial changes to the law regulating prisons
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 […]
Committee for Justice and Dignity urge UN Human Rights Council to create a mechanism to investigate human rights violations in Egypt
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 […]
Egypt: UN concerned about recent wave of executions amid calls to ensure fair trial standards
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 […]
After complaints by Committee for Justice, UN pressures Egypt to reveal fate of forcibly disappeared citizens
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 […]
Trial Watch Project
Trial Watch Project One of the most important projects of the Committee for Justice is the analysis of violations of fair trial rules. The project, […]
Egypt: New wave of executions against 7 defendants in political cases
The international silence on human rights violations in Egypt, especially the right to life, made the authorities there continue to carry out mass death sentences […]
Egypt: End arbitrary detention, Free them all
Twelve Egyptian activists have been on hunger strike since early February 2022 in protest of their prolonged pre-trial detention at Tora Prison Complex. Among them, […]
Egypt: Government must immediately close Case 173 and end assault on human rights organizations and defenders
The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s failure to close Case no. 173 of 2011, commonly known as the “NGO Foreign Funding Case”, […]
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UN issues statement on detained Al Jazeera journalists after CFJ communication
As part of its continuous success in bringing the voices of the oppressed to UN mechanisms in order to work for their redress and lift […]
Al-Sisi’s Visit to Brussels: No Red Carpet for Human Rights Violations
As EU officials prepare to welcome African heads of state for the EU-AU summit in Brussels on 17-18 February, 2022, 6 NGOs call on EU […]
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Civil Society Organizations Call on the European Union to Withdraw its Joint Candidacy with Egypt to Chair the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum
In light of Egypt’s alarming record of severe human rights violations, often “justified” in the name of counterterrorism, the undersigned civil society organizations are appalled […]
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