UN Human Rights Council reviews Libya’s human rights record
Press release: By: Committee for Justice (CFJ), Geneva, November 6, 2020 The UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will review, for […]
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UN Committee urges Saudi authorities to release Loujain Al-Hathloul and other detainees
Press release Committee for Justice, Geneva, November 5, 2020 The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has expressed its grave […]
Human rights organizations call on Egypt’s government to end internet censorship and website blocking
The undersigning human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian authorities’ blocking of at least 600 websites since May 2017 including media, political and human rights platforms. […]
Egypt: Days before a verdict in the trial of engineer Mamdouh Hamza, government’s vindictive use of terrorism charges against peaceful critics denounced by human rights organizations
The undersigned human rights organizations call for charges to be dismissed in the trial of engineer Mamdouh Hamza, whose verdict is scheduled for October 26th. […]
Egypt: ill-treatment and arbitrary measures trigger new hunger strike at Istiqbal Tora prison
Joint statement: The undersigned human rights organizations categorically reject the continued policy of humiliation practiced by Egyptian authorities against detainees, especially political prisoners. Such policy […]
CFJ condemns Egypt’s use of the death penalty in new court verdicts
press release: CFJ, Geneva, 29 September 2020 The Committee for Justice (CFJ) said on Tuesday that the verdicts issued today by Egypt’s Cassation Court in the […]
UN experts express concern on Covid-19 risks for detained Egyptian human rights defenders
Press release: Translation and editing by CFJ Geneva, 29 September 2020 A group of United Nations human rights experts have expressed their deep concern about […]
Egypt: New ‘record’ campaign of executions against detaineesii
The Committee for Justice (CFJ) organization said that it has received information from several sources that Egyptian authorities in recent days have executed 15 political detainees: 2 of […]
CFJ demands release of activist Alaa Abd El- Fattah and lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer on 1st anniversary of their arrest
The Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that it rejects the Egyptian authorities’ continued detention of human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer, and human rights activist, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, on the first anniversary of their arrest. […]
International demands to reveal the cause of death of Shady Habash in his prison cell in Egypt, and assurances that his death was “arbitrary”
Three UN Special Rapporteurs expressed their grave concern about the death of Egyptian filmmaker Shady Habash in his prison in early May, and the failure […]
Egypt: Government must stop arbitrary arrests and respect freedom of expression
The undersigned human rights organizations renew their demand for the Egyptian government to respect the rights of free expression and privacy, and for state security […]
Egypt: will the state allow rapists to act with impunity after the ‘Fairmont Crime’?
Even the most optimistic of observers did not expect the Egyptian government to pay attention to the Fairmont Crime, the gang rape scandal in Cairo’s […]
UN: Report of the Secretary-General to monitor acts of intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders
The Committee for Justice (CFJ) said that it welcomes the report of the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on the acts of intimidation and reprisals […]
CFJ demands investigation into the death of political prisoner Amr Abu Khalil
The Committee for Justice (CFJ) condemned the death of the detainee Dr. Amr Abu Khalil at the maximum-security of Aqrab (part of the Tora prison complex) in Egypt’s capital Cairo, as an extrajudicial killing. Abu Khalil passed away on Sunday 6 […]
Egypt: Public prosecution must fulfil its role in conducting independent investigations, not state security investigations
The undersigned human rights organizations denounce and call for an immediate end to the Egyptian government’s relentless retaliatory campaign targeting opposition, political activists, human rights […]
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