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
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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 demonstrations on November 11 against the deteriorating economic conditions in the country as well as with the holding of the Cop27 Climate Summit in the […]

Egypt: CFJ third 2022 quarterly report documents 1,453 human rights violations
In its third quarterly report for the year 2022, the […]

The second quarterly report 2022 within the ” Detention Watch Project” in Egypt
By the second quarter of 2022, Egyptian security services and […]
Detention Watch 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 report by the Committee for […]

CFJ: Egypt failed to deal with Covid-19 inside detention centers and prisons
The spike in Covid-19 infections in Egyptian prisons between March […]

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

Egypt: CFJ documents death of a political detainee in Zagazig Police Station as a result of harsh detention conditions
Press release Committee for Justice Geneva: January 29, 2023 The […]

Egypt: CFJ calls for transparent probe into disappearance of French national
The Committee for Justice calls for transparency in Egypt’s investigations […]

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