On 20 January, a verdict is expected in the trial of Nabeel Rajab, a prominent Bahraini activist and internationally recognized human rights defender. President of the Bahrain Center for Human …
Saudi Arabia Flogs a Citizen and Egypt Imprisons another for ‘Offending Islam’
Bahey El Din Hassan, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Director, stated that there is no qualitative difference between the position of terrorist groups and that of some Arab …
A Way to Harass Democracy Advocates and a Serious Violation to the Constitution
The undersigned organizations condemn the recent decisions to ban some democracy and human rights advocates from traveling, based on rulings of the investigative judge in the “foreign funding case.” The …
Combating terrorism must include religious reform, which cannot take place in the abscene of comprehensive political reform
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) condemns the terrorist acts that shook the French capital city, Paris last week, and which took the lives of 12 people at …
Rights Organizations meets with UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs to discuss human rights developments in Egypt
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies’ Cairo office hosted a meeting yesterday, December 13, between Jeffery Feltman, United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and 6 Egyptian human rights organizations …
cihrs.netanizes visit between Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights and several Arab rights activists
Yesterday, December 13, the Tunisian branch of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and several Arab rights defenders visited the office of the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social …
UAE: Fear that Anti-Terrorism Law will be used to curtail human rights and target human rights defenders
A coalition of international NGOs is seriously concerned about the impact of the Anti-Terrorism Law in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that was approved by President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed …
UN-CIHRS joint training seminar on international instruments and defense of human rights
On December 10, International Human Rights Day, the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights and the regional bureau of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Tunis …
Syria: No word on four abducted activists, A year on, no information on Douma Four
The prominent Syrian human rights defenders Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Khalil, Wa’el Hamada and Nazem Hamadi –the Douma Four— remain missing a year after their abduction,57 organizations said today. The four were abducted in Duma, a city near …
After 20 years: CIHRS moves its regional and international programs outside Egypt
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies has decided to move its regional and international programs outside Egypt in light of the ongoing threats to human rights organizations and the …