The Egyptian authorities’ targeting of families in Egypt of activists and human rights defenders living abroad has been escalating, demonstrating a clear pattern of intimidation and harassment, 22 Egyptian, regional, and international organizations said today. Since August 2020, the authorities…
Month: February 2021
On Sunday 14 February, National security forces raided the house of human rights advocate Mohamed Soltan’s cousins and uncles and arrested one of them. A few days earlier, on 10 February, the family house of Academic and researcher Taqadum Al-Khatib…
16 February 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned by the Egyptian government’s constant abuse of lawyer Islam Salama, who has been forcibly disappeared for the third consecutive time, following earlier verdicts by criminal courts in Cairo and…
12 February 2021 The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecution to release Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s researcher at the Central European University (CEU) in Austria, given that the investigations concerning him are not based on…
The undersigned Egyptian human rights organizations call on the Public Prosecutor to urgently open credible investigations into the physical assaults, acts of harassment, and abuse against journalist Solafa Magdy by police and staff at Qanater women’s prison, where she is…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) monitored the appearance of Ahmed Samir Abdel-Hai Ali, researcher and master’s student at Central European University before the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP), after six days of enforced disappearance. The SSSP charged Samir with…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights calls for urgent action regarding the arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance of Ahmed Samir Abdelhay Ali, an Egyptian master’s student at Central European University and a human rights defender. Ahmed’s whereabouts have remained unknown since…
To read the full report During this year, the Egyptian judicial and executive authorities still progressively applied the death penalty; either through issuing, upholding or implementing dozens of verdicts ending lives, whether as a punishment for criminal offenses or terrorism…
Journalist Solafa Magdy Mahfouz was beaten, threatened, and harassed as well as dragged along her detention facility in Al-Qanater prison by prison staff, according to lawyers who confirmed this to the Egyptian Front for Human Rights. In addition to complaints…