The undersigned organisations condemn the decision of the State Security Supreme Prosecution (SSSP) to indict Patrick Zaki, the researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), on charges of “spreading false news inside and outside of the country”, based…
Year: 2021
Ten human rights organizations today said they stood in full solidarity with leaders and members of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, whose trial begins this Saturday, 11 September, before an Emergency State Security Criminal Court, over charges relating…
Within the framework of the Egyptian Front for Human Rights’ follow up on the performance of the Terrorism Circuits during the hearings for reviewing the renewal of detention orders for defendants before the counselling chamber, the Egyptian Front continues monitoring…
16 July 2021 The undersigned organizations call on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to quash the verdict against Ahmed Samir Santawy, an Egyptian researcher and anthropology student at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna, Austria. On 22 June 2021,…
Yesterday July 14, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals of human rights defenders Zyad Elelaimy, Ramy Shaath, and eleven others regarding their inclusion on the ‘Terrorist List’ for a period of five years, an appalling miscarriage of justice denounced…
30 June 2021 The undersigned organizations condemn the decision of Othman Muhammad Othman, the Dean of the Higher Technological Institute (HTI) in the 10th of Ramadan City, to refer Dr. Manar Al-Tantawi, an assistant professor at the Institute (6th of…
Coinciding with the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the undersigned independent human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian government’s systematic practice of torture against prisoners in the country. The undersigned declare their full solidarity with victims of torture…
The undersigned organizations express their deep concern about the continued disappearance of dentist and former parliamentarian, Mostafa Al-Naggar, on its 1000th day, and call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately disclose any information related to his whereabouts and to reveal…
22 June 2021 The undersigned rights organizations condemn the sentencing of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to four years in prison, on 22 June, by the Emergency Supreme State Security Court in Case no. 774 of 2021[1]. The verdict, which cannot…
Today, the Emergency State Security Misdemeanour Court ordered a 4-year prison sentence and a fine of 500 pounds to Ahmed Samir Santawi, a researcher and Master student at the Central European University (CEU), in Case No. 774 of 2021 Emergency…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights published a report entitled: “Life restrained by State Security’s Follow-up” about the National Security’s follow-up policy towards former detainees. Follow-up is a policy that greatly controls the shaping of people’s lives after their release from prison…
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Court of Cassation’s 14 June verdict upholding the death sentence against twelve leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Case no. 2985 of 2015, known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case. The organizations demand an…
The undersigned human rights organizations call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Walid Ahmed Shawky, 34, one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, who has been in arbitrary detention for two years and seven months,…
According to our documentation, Tora Maximum Security II Prison is overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and short of potable water and hygiene tools. prisoners struggle to find decent food and suffer from a systematic shortage of health care facilities and a widespread…
The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of those detained in the Hope Coalition case (case no. 930 of 2019) and for the dismissal of all charges against them. As the two-year maximum lawful duration of their pretrial detention…
June 1, 2021 The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), to the urgent trial before the Emergency Supreme State Security Court, in Case…
27 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the banning of Walid Salem, a doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, from traveling for the second time on 24 May 2021, and adding his name to the travel…
Joint statement, May 5, 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations strongly reject the move by Egyptian authorities to pursue family members of the detainee Abdul Rahman Gamal Al-Shuweikh after their disclosure and official complaint to the Minya Prosecution that he…
8 May 2021 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the prevention of health care to human rights lawyer Muhammad Ramadan, who is being held in pretrial detention pending case 467 of 2020, in Tora investigation prison, and hold the…
The Egyptian government will convene an online panel discussion with United Nations member states on the 4th of May to discuss its national legal framework concerning civil society, including , Law n. 149 of 2019 on Civic Associations and its…