Detention Watch Project
Arbitrary arrests have explosively increased following the events of 30 June 2013. This led to overcrowding of detainees in places of detention and the use of non-commissioned places of detention as detention facilities, where detainees are placed outside the protection of the law and subjected to extended periods of torture, or even killed. CFJ will monitor all known places of detention and preparing relevant materials about violations against detainees, and field follow-up with associations of families of the victims on the national and subnational level. The objective of this project is increasing local civil society 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. Another objective will be to support the prevention of impunity of perpetrators of human rights violations in places of detention.

Latest Reports
Detention Watch Periodic Reports

Egyptian prisons: rehabilitation centres or graves for human rights
The 2021 annual report by the Committee for Justice has shed light on the latest developments in Egypt’s human rights climate, above all was the abolition of the state of emergency and its replacement with repressive amendments that essentially established another state of “emergency” and a “state of exception” in […]

Human Rights Strategy in Egypt?
CFJ: Third quarterly report of 2021 (July to September) Announcing […]

‘We decided to close the investigation’
‘We decided to close the investigation’: Mechanisms of complaint and […]
Detention Watch Thematic Reports

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, despite the abusive measures it […]

EGYPT: THE HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF AL-SISI
Amnesty International Italy, Human Rights Watch and DIGNITY – Danish […]

The Giulio Regenis of Egypt: Deaths in custody in Egypt since 2013
Press release: by Committee for Justice Geneva 10 December 2020 […]
Press Releases

Egypt: New wave of executions against 7 defendants in political cases
The international silence on human rights violations in Egypt, especially […]

EU has moral obligation to support human rights in Egypt, says CFJ director at EU Parliament speech
Press release By: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 27, 2021 […]

CFJ: Trial of Regeni killers a milestone against impunity
As the trial of the suspected killers of the Italian […]