URGENT APPEAL FOR ACTION: EGYPT SECURITY FORCES RAID LEADING HUMAN RIGHT ORGANIZATION, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS ARRESTED AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO (19 December, 2013) The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) …
The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights raided and staff arrested… The Beginning of a New Wave of Oppression
In an unprecedented escalation, the Egyptian security forces, in the early hours of the morning, raided the headquarters of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, and arrested Mustafa …
Egypt and political violence
Across Egypt’s varied governments in the last 40 years, one characteristic unites them all: a common failure to respond to the root causes of political violence, writes Bahieddin Hassan ‘The …
Egypt: No Acknowledgment or Justice for Mass Protester Killings Set Up a Fact-Finding Committee as a First Step
Thirteen Egyptian and international human rights organizations called on the Egyptian authorities today, on international Human Rights Day, to acknowledge, and seriously and thoroughly investigate the killing of up to …
Despite widespread objections, government insists on passing a law “preventing” peaceful assembly, and refers for Presidential ratification
The undersigned organizations deplore attempts made by the interim government to pass a law on the “regulation of the right to hold public meetings, processions and peaceful demonstrations in public …
Sentencing 12 Azhar students to 17 years in prison is a violation of justice and the law
The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the verdict by Al Gamaleya court of misdemeanor in case no. 7332/2013 on the 12 November 2013 to sentence 12 student at El Azhar university …
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s workshop on the promotion of human rights in Egypt
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) have come together to organize a workshop entitled “Advancing Human Rights in Egypt: Recent Lessons, …
Egypt to answer to UN body for ongoing social rights crisis
As Egypt’s political crisis continues, its government will be asked to account to the United Nations later this week for what has been done to address the social injustices which …
Rights Organizations Warn that New Counter-Terrorism Law would Re-Establish Foundations of Police State and Intensify Violence and Terrorism
The undersigned rights organizations call upon the Egyptian cabinet to reject the counter-terrorism bill that was recently presented by the Interior Ministry. We warn that adoption of this bill would …
Human Rights Organizations Call on the Attorney General to Stop the Implementation of Imprisonment Penalty On the Nile University Student
The human rights organizations signed this statement today; demanding from the attorney general, Judge Hesham Barakat, to promptly rectify the legal mistakes happened in the trial of the Nile University …