The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Supreme State Security Prosecution’s recent referral of hundreds of detained citizens to terrorism courts instead of immediately releasing them. Defendants in these court …
Egypt: Government’s unrelenting criminalization of human rights work through legislation and retaliation detailed in UPR report
View PostEgyptian Government Sends Clear Message Ahead of UN Review: Human Rights Reform Off the Table
For well over a decade, our organizations have regularly analyzed and documented developments concerning Egypt’s human rights crisis, most recently through our joint submission to the United Nations ahead of …
Civil society concerns over Europol-Egypt cooperation agreements
To: Commissioner for Home Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner CC: Beate Gminder, Acting Directorate General of Directorate General Home Affairs Julian Siegl, Head of Unit HOME.D.1 on Law Enforcement Cooperation …
Call for Urgent Action: Over 500 Signatures from Public Figures, Human Rights Organizations, Political Groups, and Individuals Demanding Immediate Release of Poet Abdel Rahman Youssef
We, the undersigned individuals and organizations, express our condemnation of the detention of poet Abdel Rahman Youssef Al-Qaradawi by Lebanese authorities on 28 December 2024, based on a security cooperation …
Human Rights Organizations: Right to Return for North Sinai Residents is Fundamental, and Military Trials are invalid
The signatories condemn in the strongest terms the harsh and unjust sentences issued by a military court on Saturday, December 14, 2024, against 62 civilians from North Sinai, including tribal …
Egypt: Joint report on mounting human rights crisis
12 Rights groups present recommendations to the Egyptian government as the UN review of its rights record approaches On 17 December 2024, twelve Egyptian human rights organizations published a joint …
Egypt: ‘Exceptional’ Code of Criminal Procedures undermines justice
View PostTAE’THIR CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
T H E M E “Resisting Defeatism” Humanity has endured endless tests throughout the recent decades, with the past year proving particularly devastating. The ongoing genocidal wars in Gaza and …
Egypt: Lift punitive measures against EIPR staff
The Egyptian government must immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a prominent Egyptian human rights …