Egypt | Detention Watch “Violations in Egyptian Places of Detention” Bimonthly report November-December 2019

05/01/2020

Following CFJ’s previous periodic reports on human rights violations against individuals who are under the custody of law enforcement officers and security agencies in the […]

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Egypt: Rights organizations demand investigations in the 167-day disappearance and torture of Ibrahim Ezz El-Din

20/12/2019

Rather than denial to the international community Days before his detention renewal session scheduled for Sunday, December 22, the undersigned Egyptian rights organizations renew their […]

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Egypt: Rights organizations hold Egyptian authorities accountable for Ramy Kamel’s safety and life

17/12/2019

The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations condemn the continued detention of Ramy Kamel, a human rights activist and defender of Coptic Christian minority rights in Egypt.  We call […]

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 “With No Accountability”

10/12/2019

Death incidents inside Egyptian places of detention during the period between 30 June 2013 and 1 December 2019. Geneva 10 December 2019 On the occasion […]

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Egypt: Citizens’ lack of trust in the justice system is the real danger

04/12/2019

Renewed detention is latest development in the Hope Coalition Case All defendants[1] in the Hope Coalition Case (no. 930 of 2019) had their detention renewed […]

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Egypt | Detention Watch “Violations in Egyptian Places of Detention” Bimonthly report September-October 2019

10/11/2019

Following committee for justice’s previous periodic reports on human rights violations against individuals who are under the custody of law enforcement officers and security agencies […]

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Egypt | UN experts denounce Morsi “brutal” prison conditions, warn thousands of other inmates at severe risk

09/11/2019

GENEVA (8 November 2019) The prison regime in Egypt may have directly led to the death of former President Mohamed Morsi, and may be placing […]

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Egypt: Systematic torture is a state policy

04/11/2019

Joint UN submission by rights groups exposes endemic torture and appalling conditions in Egypt’s prisons Harrowing testimonies of systematic torture continue being too frequently heard […]

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Egypt | 300 UN recommendations spurned by the Egyptian government, 12 demands must be urgently implemented before next month’s UPR

14/10/2019

Egypt: Newly released rights report details direly declining human rights situation since 2014 Egypt’s human rights situation is at its worst since 2014, as corroborated […]

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Egypt: Rights groups call for immediate release of protesters, political party leaders, and presidential candidates

01/10/2019

UN must be invited to investigate the situation in Egypt The brutal crackdown by Egyptian state security, which in the last few days was marked […]

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Egypt: All are vulnerable as government plunges into frenzied quest to eliminate opposition

01/10/2019

The arrests of Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mohamed al-Baker are the latest in escalating state retaliation against peaceful and lawful opposition and human rights defenders […]

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Egypt: Human Rights Violations in the context of Counter terrorism and National Security

30/09/2019

Joint Submission for the 34th session of the UPR Working Group, November 2019 This UPR submission has been prepared by a coalition of the following […]

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Biannual report of ‘Detention Watch’ in Egypt: 4,820 violations in six months, Enforced disappearance topped the list of violations, and Sharqia governorate faces documented persecution

03/09/2019

65 cases of extrajudicial killings and 153 documented violations against 91 detainees Press release Committee for Justice Geneva 3 September 2019 “Another six months of […]

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Egypt | Detention Watch “Violations in Egyptian Places of Detention” Bimonthly report July-August 2019

02/09/2019

Following CFJ’s previous periodic reports on human rights violations against individuals who are under the custody of law enforcement officers and security agencies in the […]

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The UN postpones its regional conference in Egypt on the crime of torture

22/08/2019

Human rights organizations: Egypt should be denied hosting the conference due to its record of torture crimes Egyptian rights groups, signatories to this statement, wish […]

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