The Egyptian government has trampled over even the minimum requirements for free and fair elections for the planned March 26-28, 2018 vote for president, fourteen international and regional rights organizations …
Syria | The UNGA must bring accountability and affirm international will as multiple war fronts and chemical attacks devastate civilians in Syria
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expresses its deepest concerns regarding the escalation of hostilities in Syria, most alarmingly exemplified by reports of chlorine gas use by the …
Egypt |The European Parliament calls on Egypt to suspend the death penalty and refrain from using it for counterterrorism purposes
The undersigned rights organizations emphasize that the “unprecedented violations perpetrated by the Egyptian authorities are intensifying the frequency and severity of international condemnations.” Following the High Commissioner for Human Rights …
Libya Platform: The Presidential Council of the GNA must abide by its responsibility to ensure the protection and safe return of the displaced Tawergha community
The Libya Platform, comprised of 16 Libyan organizations, is deeply concerned about recent developments regarding the return of residents to the city of Tawergha. Tawergha residents were forcibly expelled from …
Egypt | Rights groups: The referral of judges Hisham Raouf and Assem Abd al-Gabbar to a competency hearing is political retaliation
In conjunction with the sixth session of the Supreme Judiciary Council to be held on February 5th, the undersigned organizations express their full solidarity with Judge Hisham Raouf and …
Egypt: Rights organizations condemn the escalating execution of civilians after fundamentally flawed trials in military and anti-terrorism courts
The undersigned organizations condemn the execution of Egyptian citizen Tayseer Odeh Sulaiman, aged 25, on Tuesday January 30, 2018. A military court sentenced Sulaiman to death in a fundamentally flawed …
Egypt: First appeal hearing tomorrow in Case no. 173/2011 for NGO workers sentenced in politically-motivated trial falling below minimum standards of fairness
Tomorrow February 1, 2018, the Cassation Court will hold its first hearing on the appeal in Case no. 173 of 2011, known as the Foreign Funding Case against human rights …
Egypt: Repealed colonial-era law used to sentence 474 Egyptians to death from 2014-2017
To mark the one-year anniversary of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) report Toward the Emancipation of Egypt exposing the Egyptian Parliament’s repeal of the Assembly Law (Law …
Libya | Urgent Appeal: Libya Platform calls on UNSC member states to throw full support behind ICC investigations into grave and systematic violations of international humanitarian law
The Libya Platform (LP), composed of 16 CSOs, has issued an urgent appeal to member states of the UN Security Council, urging them to take a swift, decisive stand on …
Egypt: Rights groups call on UN Secretary General to pressure Egyptian government to halt executions, welcome independent UN experts’ condemnation of the latest sentences
In a letter to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, 13 independent rights organizations urged the UN to immediately intervene to stop the Egyptian government from carrying out 26 death …