Human rights violations against detainees have explosively increased following the events of 30 June 2013. This led to overcrowding of detainees in places of detention, placing them outside the protection of the law and subjected to extended periods of torture, or even killed.
The objective of this project is increasing local and international awareness of the detainee rights inside places of detention, and incentivizing their respective families and CSOs to independently and objectively seek to exercise self-monitoring of places of detention to the extent possible.
On longer term, CFJ is looking for contributing in prevention of impunity of perpetrators of human rights violations in places of detention.
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Egypt: CFJ documents 2,238 human rights violations in last three months of 2022
The last quarter of 2022 was replete with human rights violations committed by the Egyptian authorities. The abuses occurred in conjunction with the calls for […]
Egypt: CFJ third 2022 quarterly report documents 1,453 human rights violations
In its third quarterly report for the year 2022, the Committee for Justice documented 1,453 human rights violations in Egyptian prisons and detention centers. The […]
Thematic reports
Life after prison in Egypt: Integration or permanent alienation
Physical and psychological torture in Egyptian prisons has lasting effects on survivors, who struggle to reintegrate into their own societies after their release, a new […]
CFJ: Egypt failed to deal with Covid-19 inside detention centers and prisons
The spike in Covid-19 infections in Egyptian prisons between March 2020 and August 2021 indicates Egypt’s failure to confront the pandemic in its detention facilities, […]
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