Release Manar to join her child
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 […]
Egypt
Egypt: Implementing regulations of NGO law intended to cripple civil society
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 […]
CFJ Executive Director: Human rights is the only means of pressuring the Egyptian regime now
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 […]
CFJ Executive Director: Human rights is the only means of pressuring the Egyptian regime now
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 […]
UN experts criticize the continued imprisonment of Egyptian activists, including Oxygen and Patrick Zaki, and demand an end to the violations against them
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 […]
UN experts concerned about the death of 3 detainees in Egypt’s prisons due to health care denial
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 […]
Report on the violations in Case No. 22/2015 Criminal/Military/Total/Ismailia, registered under Case No. 4/2015, Criminal/Military/Partial/Mansoura
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 […]
Report on the violations in Case No. 3654/2014, Criminal/Military/Ismailia, registered under No. 58/2014 Criminal/Military/Partial/al-Mansoura
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 […]
Egypt: Escalating Reprisals, Arrests of Critics’ Families End Hostage-Like Arrests
(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 […]
Egyptian authorities weaponize acts of reprisal to silence human rights advocates, academics, and their families
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 […]
CFJ spokeswoman: Egypt does not abide by international standards of fair trials
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 […]
Egypt: Enforced disappearance of lawyer Islam Salama condemned by rights organizations amid calls on the Ministry of Interior to implement his release
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 […]
Report on the violations in Case No. 269/2015 Criminal/ Military/Ismailia، registered as 96/2015 Criminal/Military/ Mansoura
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 […]
UN experts concerned about torture of female detainees in Al-Qanater Prison in Egypt
News briefing Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: February 16, 2021 UN experts confirmed that the serious human rights violations that women detained in Al-Qanater […]
Report on the violations in Case No. 2 of 2020/Central Cairo/Emergency State Security (Mamdouh Hamza case)
Press statement: Mamdouh Hamza case Report on the violations in Case No. 2 of 2020/Central Cairo/Emergency State Security, registered under No. 4148 of 2020, Felonies/Qasr […]
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