This week marks an entire year spent by Coptic activist Ramy Kamel behind bars. The undersigned human rights organizations denounce Ramy’s continued arbitrary detention, in retaliation for his human rights work, locally and internationally, as a defender of Coptic rights…
Month: November 2020
Less than a month passed since the Egyptian government presented its draft of amending both the Anti-Terrorism Law 94/2015 and the Terrorist Entities Law 8/2018 to the House of Representatives. The House approved the majority of amendments to the two…
Prisoners in “Ward 1”, the political ward of the Qanater Prison for women, decided to go on hunger strike on Sunday, Nov 22 protesting against gruesome attacks they were subjected to by the prison administration. Four days ago, the prison…
November 24, 2020 The Egyptian authorities’ abuse of veteran human rights defender Gasser Abdel Razek, Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), is condemned by the undersigned human rights organizations. Gasser’s arrest and punitive treatment in prison…
Cairo 19 November 2020 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the arrest of Gasser Abdel Razek, Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and one of the pioneers of the human rights movement in Egypt, as…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights has published a guideline: The “Everyone should Listen!” Ward” As a glossary of prison slang and a guide to the most prominent terms used in Egyptian prisons. This guide was written by a former prisoner, who was…
The undersigning human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian authorities’ blocking of at least 600 websites since May 2017 including media, political and human rights platforms. Blocking websites is a violation of people’ rights for access to information and freedom of…
Egyptian Front has published a report: “Suspended Executions” to highlight on violations of the rights of defendants pending execution in cases of political violence, between years 2013 to 2020. ِِAt these times, the execution wheel is spinning once again in Egypt,…
The undersigned human rights organizations call for charges to be dismissed in the trial of engineer Mamdouh Hamza, whose verdict is scheduled for October 26th. Guilty only of exercising his right to peaceful expression of opinion through social media, Hamza’s…