The undersigned organizations express their concern regarding the exceptional procedures taken yesterday against Islamist satellite channels, which included the breaking by security forces into offices of those channels, arrest of …
To Resolve Current Political Crisis:
Rule of Law Must Be the Basis of the State
The undersigned organizations declare their profound respect for the overwhelming uprising of the Egyptian people, who on June 30 set out to boldly challenge the political despotism, which had now …
UAE DENIES INTERNATIONAL LEGAL OBSERVER ACCESS TO VERDICT IN SHOW TRIAL OF UAE94
the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information …
Save the Date Tuesday October 8th 2013 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders
The City of Geneva and the Martin Ennals Foundation are honored to invite you to the 2013 edition of this award. The laureate will be announced at the Ceremony on: …
One year into Mohamed Morsi’s term
Manifold abuses and the systematic undermining of the rule of law
Joint press release by 20 rights organizations The undersigned organizations regret to announce that the status of human rights in Egypt has deteriorated alarmingly in the one year since the …
Administrative repression
Originally Posted in Al-Ahram weekly By: Mohamed Zaree Egypt’s draft NGO law reproduces the tools the Mubarak regime developed to repress dissent and innovation in society, writes Mohamed Zaree On …
How will history remember President Morsi?
Originally Posted in Al-Ahram weekly By: Bahieddin Hassan Mohamed Morsi has done more than generations of secularists to convince Egyptians that politics and religion shouldn’t mix, writes Bahieddin Hassan President …
Human Rights Council must do more to protect human rights in Palestine, Syria, Egypt
The 23rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council), which concluded on 14 June 2013, began with a special focus on Syria and the deteriorating situation in …
Sentencing “Karam Saber” to five years for charges of defamation of religion is a flagrant violation of freedom of opinion and expression
The undersigned organizations condemn the sentence in absentia by the Beba court of misdemeanor in Beni Eouief (see below) against writer and human rights activist and director of the …
In an oral intervention to the UN: Instead of accountability for violations, international community offers Israel political rewards
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and Al-Haq presented an oral intervention to the UN Human Rights Council (the Council),on Monday, june 10, in which they condemned the …