{:en} Download the brief in PDF In the 2nd cycle of the UPR, Egypt accepted several recommendations on: Amending the protest law to bring it in line with international conventions and the Egyptian constitution. Guaranteeing a safe and enabling environment…
Year: 2019
{:en}Egypt’s human rights situation is at its worst since 2014, as corroborated by a newly released report by Egyptian rights organizations ahead of Egypt’s imminent Universal Periodic Review (UPR), scheduled for the 13th of November. The government’s onward march in…
{:en}Joint Submission by: Egyptian Taskforce for Human Rights Related to: Egypt’s UPR UPR session: 34th session of UPR (13th November 2019) This report presents the collective account of Egyptian Human Rights organizations based within and outside Egypt, regarding…
{:en}Over the past few days, a large number of official institutions and various Egyptian media have launched a massive propaganda campaign against human rights organizations, saying they are instigating the public against the political system in addition to cooperating with…
{:en}The brutal crackdown by Egyptian state security, which in the last few days was marked by the arrests of nearly 2000 people – including peaceful demonstrators, political leaders, rights activists, journalists, and lawyers – constitutes a flagrant violation of the…
{:en}Egyptian rights groups, signatories to this statement, wish to thank all parties, both Egyptian activists and international organizations for their pressure to postpone the regional conference on ““Defining and Combatting the Crime of Torture in Arab Legislation”, which had been…
{:en}It was a striking choice for France to invite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to attend the 24-26 August G7 summit in Biarritz, for which the chosen theme is “the fight against inequality”. The number of Egyptians under the poverty line…
{:en}Geneva, August 2019 “There is no doubt that the respect for human rights and the application of guarantees of fair trial is the higher goal of a developed democratic society that safeguards the rights of citizens, guarantees their equality before…
{:en}Mr. Mohamed Fayek President of the National Council for Human Rights After Greetings, The Egyptian Front for Human Rights has took note of a number of fallacies and misconceptions that may reflect the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR)’s…
The undersigned organizations reject the draft NGO law currently before the Egyptian parliament. Presented as an alternative to the widely-criticized Law 70 of 2017, the draft NGO is simply a rebranding of the current repressive law. It is animated by the same underlying hostility to civil society organizations, and seeks to subordinate them to the security apparatus. We urge all concerned parties, including the international community, to reject the bill and pressure for further reforms, especially by advocating for the NGO bill drafted under former Minister of Social Solidarity Ahmed al-Borai – a bill that was formulated on the foundation of extensive consultation, dialogue, and input from civil society organizations and ministries.
{:en}The undersigned human rights organizations call upon Egyptian authorities to respect their constitutional obligations under article 236, as well as their obligations under international law, standards set forth in Convention No. 107 of 1957 for the Protection of Indigenous and…
{:en}The undersigned organizations warn that prominent opposition politician Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh will soon meet the grim fate of former president Mohamed Morsi, unless there is immediate intervention to put an end to pervasive medical neglect in Egypt’s prisons; a…
{:en}The undersigned organisations express their deep concern over the children standing before trial in Egypt in the case known to the media as the Three Pyramids Hotel case, which is due for issuing a verdict on June 22, 2019. The…
{:en}The death of former president Mohamed Morsi exposes one of the Egyptian government’s cruelest forms of political retaliation: prolonged medical neglect in prison with the aim of inflicting a slow death upon opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Morsi is…
{:en}North Sinai has been in a continuous state of emergency since October 2014 under the pretext of the war on terror, which makes it vulnerable for ongoing violations of the basic rights for individuals. On November 29, 2017, following the…
In the years following July 2013 the judicial authorities began to issue death sentences excessively in cases where civilians were tried before military courts or before extraordinary chambers such as terrorism tribunals in civil courts. During this period, the authorities carried out executions in 13 cases involving acts of political violence, eight of which were before military courts and five cases before civil courts, the last of which was the executing of nine persons in the case commonly known as “the assassination of the Attorney General” which was widely condemned on local and international levels, raising the number of executed persons in more than five years ago to at least 47 people. In which the defendants faced – with the rest of convicts in these cases – gross violations, breaching the most basic standards of fair trial, which must be met, especially in the death penalty cases.
{:en}We, the undersigned organizations strongly condemn the defamation campaign by the Egyptian authorities against human rights defender Mohamed Soltan, following the recent advocacy work of the organisation he leads, The Freedom Initiative, in Washington D.C. These attacks are part of…
Egypt is hosting an Africa human rights summit meeting beginning April 24, 2019, while its government is presiding over the worst human rights crisis in the country in recent decades, 15 African, Egyptian, and international organizations said today. The 64th Ordinary Session…
The undersigned rights organizations call on international organizations to monitor the upcoming referendum to amend the Egyptian constitution; if approved, the amendments will grant unilateral authority to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi by expanding presidential term limits together with eliminating judicial…
The case no. 277 for the year 2019 National Security, known in the media as Allahomma Thawra, began January 2019 in parallel with the fifth memory of the 25th of January revolution. The case includes 54 defendants, 13 of whom…