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Egypt: End Harassment of Rights Defender
Verdict on Hossam Bahgat Speech Charges Due November 29 (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should cease the harassment and persecution of prominent human rights defender and journalist, Hossam Bahgat, who faces abusive charges …
Egypt: UNDP Report Whitewashes Human Rights Violations
(New York, November 22, 2021) — The United Nations Development Program’s September 2021 Egypt Human Development Report includes false and misleading claims, Amnesty International, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies …
Egypt: Rights groups condemn exceptional sentence given to Elelaimy, Moanes, Fouad, and others and urge president not to ratify it
View PostYemen: 40 CSOs call on German government and party representatives to enact a comprehensive ban on arms exports to Saudi-led coalition
40 civil society organizations- including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies- have called for the extension and reinforcement of Germany’s ban on arms export and licensing to Saudi Arabia, …
Egypt: US Advocate’s Father Held Incommunicado
(Beirut, November 15, 2021) – Egyptian authorities have held Salah Soltan in incommunicado detention since June 2020, in conditions that amount to enforced disappearance and may amount to torture or other ill-treatment, in likely retaliation for his son’s human rights activism, 15 human rights groups said today.
Egypt: National Strategy for Human Rights a ruse to show international community and donor states that political reform is underway
View PostPrince Charles’ opportunity and obligation, when he meets President Al-Sisi
Prince Charles has been an outspoken advocate for preserving the environment for decades. He will have a great opportunity to champion one of his favourite causes when he meets with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of Egypt during a planned visit to the Middle East later this month, beginning in Jordan on 16 November.