This manual presents documentation methodology of violations of the rights of the accused through analyzing official documents of cases in Egyptian courts. It intends to monitor and analyze arbitrary measures and violations committed against the accused, especially in political cases, by judicial authorities and law enforcement personnel. Such measures violate rights guaranteed by the Constitution and International Conventions from the moment of arrest, through the process of investigation and trial, and until the accused is sentenced, after all litigation procedures established by Egyptian law are exhausted..
Year: 2018
The letter is Amnesty International’s response to the press release entitled Amnesty International’s statement on the torture of children in Egypt is not based on tangible evidence and lacks accuracy, which was issued by the Human Rights Unit of the State Information Service on 22 November.
The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to disclose the location and fate of Dr. Mustafa Al Naggar, a former member of Parliament and a father of three, who has been missing for 53 days. The Egyptian state has denied knowledge of his disappearance while alleging that he is a “fugitive” from the law. Credible suspicions that Al Naggar has been arrested are compounded by fears for his safety: he suffers from asthma and kidney stones, and denying medical treatment – as is customary in Egyptian prisons – would likely endanger his life.
The Egyptian authorities must uphold their legal obligation to protect the rights of children, in particular those arrested or detained, said Amnesty International and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights on World Children’s day. Egyptian security forces have forcibly disappeared at least 12 and physically tortured at least six children since 2015 in relation to political cases. Prison officials have failed to separate children from adults in places of detention, while both civilian and military courts regularly prosecuted and sentenced children along with adults in military trials and even sentenced at least three to death.
The Egyptian authorities have committed shocking violations against children since 2013, with at least six tortured in custody and 12 subjected to enforced disappearances since 2015, according to new findings published by Amnesty International toda
With President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently issuing a decree to amend Law 70 of 2017 regulating civic organizations, the undersigned rights organizations emphasize the futility of any attempt to revise this fundamentally flawed law: a complete redrafting of the law, on the basis of civil society independence, is required. A simple revision of the law can address neither its irreconcilability with both Egypt’s constitution and international obligations under human rights conventions, nor its inimicalness to a functioning civil society. A new law must be issued that lifts all barriers to civic action in Egypt, in accordance with the constitution and international conventions.
The undersigned organizations condemn the unlawful measures taken by the Egyptian authorities against Abdullah Boumedine Nasr al-Din, age 12, of the town of Arish in the Sinai region. He was arrested from his home on terrorism charges, forcibly disappeared for seven months, interrogated without an attorney, and is being held in solitary confinement for nearly 100 days. Immediate action must be taken to save Abdullah from the Egyptian state’s brazen violations of its own Child Law and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The ACPHR should not turn a blind eye to these atrocities. We fully support the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s recent denunciation of the injustice of the Egyptian court. We urge the ACHPR to follow the High Commissioner lead in denouncing these violations in Egypt instead of rewarding it with hosting the 64th ordinary session. The African Commission should not raise its flag over the gravestone of human rights in Egypt.
The undersigned independent rights organizations are gravely concerned by wide -scale arrests targeting human rights defenders with the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), an organization supporting victims of enforced disappearance and torture and campaigning to end the death penalty. At least 31 ECRF staff members and volunteers were arrested in Cairo and other governorates in a frenzied raid beginning on November 1 by police and Homeland Security.
Today October 15, six independent rights organizations released a new report as part of the campaign to end capital punishment in Egypt. The report, “Military Execution,” examines the state-sponsored killing of 33 civilians between July 2013 and September 2018, following eight trials in military courts lacking basic due process guarantees, and rife with violations and irregularities. The organizations contributing to the report demand an immediate moratorium on death sentences issued by both civilian and military courts, as a prelude to societal dialogue on the abolition of the death penalty.
The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with the 2013 attack on the Kerdasa police station. Egypt’s use of the capital punishment has been escalating at an unprecedented rate, with defendants slated for execution following brazenly unfair trials failing to meet minimum due process standards. The undersigned reaffirm our rejection of the death penalty and renew our calls for an immediate moratorium on mass death sentences in Egypt, and a suspension and review of all death sentences previously issued.
The undersigned organizations call upon the Egyptian authorities to stop using police supervision penalty and precautionary measures, and call for the unconditional release of those subjected to it. These measures restrict the freedom of the observed, and place them under the eyes of the various security bodies. This can be considered as an extension of the systematic policies of the Egyptian authorities to encircle freedom of opinion and expression. The organizations also express their full solidarity with those subject to such sanctions and arbitrary measures.
The undersigned independent Egyptian human rights organizations express our consternation over U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release $195 million in suspended military aid to Egypt. Pompeo’s predecessor Rex Tillerson had withheld these funds, in part over human…
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The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the mass death sentence issued in Case no. 34150/2015, commonly known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The undersigned reject the trial proceedings, which exemplify the degraded standards of fairness, impartiality and independence that define Egypt’s…
. It included a live library and activities planning at schools. 12 teachers and educators from different cities planned activities for the next school year. We wish the successful start of the new school year and look forward to meeting…
The first half of year 2018 has witnessed exacerbating apprehension and detention of politicians, journalists, bloggers, and human rights activists against the backdrop of their political activism as well as expressing their opinions freely. This came in conjunction with el-Sisi’s…
Default situation is violation is a report published by Egyptian Front and Belady Center to analysis the violations which the defendants faced in case No. 64 of 2017 military crimes north of Cairo, Known by the assassination of the Assistant…
Five years after the violent dispersals of the Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nadha sit-ins, there has neither been accountability for perpetrators nor justice for victims and survivors. At least 900 people were killed and 1492 were injured, according to rights reports. …
The undersigned rights organizations condemn Amal Fathy’s referral to trial in case no. 7991/2018. Fathy is the wife of human rights defender Mohamed Lotfy, the director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF). The Maadi Misdemeanor Court held…