UN rapporteur calls on UAE government to release five human rights defenders    

11/06/2021

News briefing    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva: 10 June 2021    The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, […]

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One year on since he was held in pretrial detention: Human rights organizations call for the release of academic Ahmed al-Tohamy

03/06/2021

The undersigned organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to release Ahmed al-Tohamy Abdel-Hay, an assistant professor of political science at the Faculty of Economic Studies […]

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UN condemnation of the right-wing extremist attacks against Palestinians in Israel

02/06/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 2 June 2021  The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Affairs, Fernand de Varennes, condemned […]

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Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment

02/06/2021

The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of those detained in the Hope Coalition case (case no. 930 of 2019) and for the dismissal […]

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Egypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms

02/06/2021

We the undersigned 64 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the […]

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Egyptian human rights organizations condemn Referring researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his unconditional release

01/06/2021

June 1, 2021 The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), […]

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UN experts condemn Egypt’s execution of a Coptic after his conviction based on an alleged forced confession

31/05/2021

News briefing:   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice   Geneva: May 30, 2021  United Nations human rights experts have condemned the execution by the Egyptian authorities of […]

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20 months of successive violations against “Al-Baqer”.. There is no redress except by his immediate release

31/05/2021

The undersigned organizations said that coinciding with the passage of 20 months since the arrest of lawyer and human rights activist, and director of the […]

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CFJ spokeswoman: Regeni’s case reflects the violations committed against Egypt’s society as a whole

30/05/2021

News briefing    Translated and edited by: The Committee for Justice    Geneva, May 30, 2021    The spokeswoman for the Committee for Justice (CFJ), Yasmine Hajar, said […]

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UN Child Rights Committee urges Israel, Palestine and the international community to provide immediate support to children  

30/05/2021

News briefing:    Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva: May 30, 2021 The Committee on the Rights of the Child of the United Nations […]

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UN Human Rights Council forms a commission to investigate the violations committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

30/05/2021

News briefing   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice   Geneva: 30 May 2021 The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution establishing an international commission […]

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For the second time, the Egyptian authorities ban researcher Walid Salem from traveling after the Public Prosecutor added him the travel ban list

27/05/2021

27 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the banning of Walid Salem, a doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, from traveling for […]

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First criminal trial internationally on torture in Egypt: Statement on the trial’s preliminary hearing addressing Italian student Giulio Regeni’s torture and murder.

25/05/2021

Rome, 25 May 2021 Today the preliminary step for a trial in Rome against four senior Egyptian National Security Agency officials will be taken. The […]

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UN welcomes Gaza-Israel ceasefire amid calls for the ICC to investigate the violations

21/05/2021

News briefing:   Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice   Geneva: May 21, 2021 UN experts called on all parties to the conflict in Gaza and […]

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UN experts call on Saudi Arabia to disclose the fate of an Australian preacher extradited from Morocco

18/05/2021

News briefing:  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: May 18, 2021 United Nations experts call on the Saudi authorities to reveal the fate […]

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