Sudan: International community must intervene immediately to save lives from ICC fugitive president who uses live ammunition on protesters

27/12/2018

The undersigned rights organizations admonish the Sudanese authorities’ use of excessive force in responding to popular protests underway since December 19, which culminated in the […]

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Attacks on People Who Met With UN Expert

12/12/2018

(Geneva, December 12, 2018) – The United Nations should ensure an urgent and robust system-wide response to credible reports that the Egyptian authorities have attacked […]

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EGYPT: Enforced disappearance and medical negligence lead the violations race in Egypt during September and October 2018

28/11/2018

Detention watch report: EGYPT: Enforced disappearance and medical negligence lead the violations race in Egypt during September and October. The continued disappearance of former Egyptian […]

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Egypt: 43 days after former MP’s disappearance, state denies knowledge of his fate while emphasizing his fugitive status

21/11/2018

The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to disclose the location and fate of Dr. Mustafa Al Naggar, a former member of […]

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Egypt: Redraft civil society law to protect, not punish, independent organizations

14/11/2018

With President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently issuing a decree to amend Law 70 of 2017 regulating civic organizations, the undersigned rights organizations emphasize the futility […]

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Egypt: 12-year old child forcibly disappeared and held in solitary confinement in state’s “fight against terrorism”

08/11/2018

October 30, 2018 Save Abdullah Boumedine The undersigned organizations condemn the unlawful measures taken by the Egyptian authorities against Abdullah Boumedine Nasr al-Din, age 12, […]

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SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL REPRESSION OF EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT

06/11/2018

November 2, 2018 Mrs. Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul, Gambia SUBJECT: DON’T PROVIDE POLITICAL COVER FOR BRUTAL […]

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Joint Report: Civilians hastily executed without due process protections by Egyptian military courts

15/10/2018

Geneva 15 October 2018 Today October 15, six independent rights organizations released a new report as part of the campaign to end capital punishment in […]

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Egypt: The crisis continues .. Enforced disappearance tops the violations in places of detention in the months of July and August 2018

08/10/2018

A new document to include to the United Nations report on  Egyptian authorities’ violations Solving the crisis of ‘Regini’ and similar cases by taking radical […]

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Death sentence for 20 Egyptians upheld in latest affront to UN calls to abolish capital punishment

01/10/2018

Geneva 1 October 2018 The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with […]

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Egypt: The United Nations working group on enforced disappearances affirms the systematic commitment of such crimes by Egyptian authorities against activists and human rights defenders.

17/09/2018

Committee for Justice Press Release Geneva 17 September 2018 Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that the annual report issued by the United Nations Working Group […]

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Statement on U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo’s Decision to Release Suspended Military Aid to Egypt

14/09/2018

Joint Statement The undersigned independent Egyptian human rights organizations express our consternation over U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release $195 million in […]

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Egypt: Ruling in Rabaa Dispersal Case underscores need for immediate end to mass death sentences

13/09/2018

Joint Statement The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the mass death sentence issued in Case no. 34150/2015, commonly known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The undersigned […]

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Egypt:  Release Amal Fathy, victim of the state’s widening prosecution to silence human rights defenders

13/08/2018

Geneva 11 August 2018 The undersigned rights organizations condemn Amal Fathy’s referral to trial in case no. 7991/2018. Fathy is the wife of human rights […]

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EGYPT DETENTION WATCH REPORT (May- June 2018)

25/07/2018

Geneva 25 July 2018 Following CfJ’s  reports on human rights violations against detainees in Egyptian detention places for the entirety of months in 2017 and […]

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