Amendments to Emergency Law exploit Covid-19 to undermine judicial independence | Egypt
9 May 2020 Update* The below statement has been amended on May 10, 2020, to reflect the final version of the law after its publication […]
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Shady Habash, a young Egyptian filmmaker held in pretrial detention for more than two years, has died in the Tora maximum security prison complex. Shady never […]
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Egypt: Free expression regarded by government as a greater threat to public safety than murder or violence
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Civil society’s call to states: we are in this together, don’t violate human rights while responding to COVID-19.
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Joint NGO statement on the United Nations’ COVID-19 response
Human Rights Council virtual informal conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Thursday, 09 April 2020 The COVID-19 crisis is powerfully demonstrating the […]
“Slow Death”Violations in Egyptian places of Detention annual report 2019
Geneve, April 6th, 2020 Few days before the Egyptian authorities had announced the emergence of several COVID -19 cases in different locations across the country, […]
Egypt: Overcrowded prisons will become epicenters of coronavirus outbreak unless some detainees immediately released
Joint Statement The signatory human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s reckless refusal to release select groups of detainees for the sake of curbing the […]
COVID-19: Urgent measures must be taken by MENA governments to protect the prison population
In light of the global COVID-19 pandemic outbreak—qualified as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO)—we, the undersigned organizations, […]
Egypt: Prison sentence against human rights defender Zyad Elelaimy represents politically-motivated vengeance
Joint Statement The undersigned rights organizations denounce the one-year prison sentence of human rights lawyer Zyad Elelaimy and demand his unconditional release and the dropping […]
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW CONCLUDES WITHOUT MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT FROM EGYPT
Human rights organisations regret Egypt’s lack of constructive engagement during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and denounce Egypt’s reprisals against NGOs and human right defenders […]
Detention Watch “Violations in Egyptian Places of Detention” Bimonthly report January -February 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 […]
Stop The Death Penalty
The Egyptian authorities should abide by the International Human Rights Guarantees while countering terrorism Committee for Justice received the news of the mass death sentencing […]
Freedom for Mohamed El-Baqer
After 150 days of renewals of detention in front of the state security prosecution – the time allowed for the prosecution to renew detention without […]
Egypt: Government retaliates against rights researcher with electric shock torture and false charges
Joint Statement The undersigned organizations demand the immediate and unconditional release of Patrick George Zaki, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and […]
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