Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 RE: Upcoming registration deadline under Egypt’s 2019 NGO law Dear Secretary Blinken, Our organizations write to you with serious concern regarding the upcoming…
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We, the undersigned Egyptian and international organizations, express our deepest concern regarding the egregious and collective violations of human rights taking place at Egypt’s Badr Rehabilitation and Correctional Center. We are particularly alarmed by recent reports of numerous suicide…
The undersigned civil society organizations condemn the Public Prosecution’s decision to refer Bissan Kassab, Rana Mamdouh, and Sarah Seif Eldin, three female journalists from independent Egyptian media outlet Mada Masr, to the Economic Court in Mansoura, Dakahlia Governorate on charges…
13 March 2023 To: Attorney General: Hamada El-Sawy From: Egyptian human rights organizations A request for urgent action to release Galal El Behairy after he has gone on a hunger strike and is refraining from taking his heart and depression…
At least 40 Egyptian citizens have been imprisoned by the State Security Prosecution after being unlawfully held incommunicado at National Security headquarters. Many among them were disappeared for prolonged periods of over three years, constituting a glaring refutation of the…
The signatory organizations express their concern with the recent developments in the Italian court trial for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of Giulio Regeni, and firmly demand that the Italian executive takes a credible stand on the case by suspending…
Within the framework of the monthly monitoring conducted by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights regarding the death sentence situation in Egypt, in criminal cases, and others that included incidents of political violence during the year 2022, the front monitored…
The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, as confirmed by the mid-term report submitted by the Egyptian Taskforce for Human Rights* to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism at the United…
Yesterday, On January 28th, 2023, EFHR monitored that the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) imprisoned the labour leader Muhammad Hashem Farghali Soliman (58 years old – an employee of the Public Transport agency) for 15 days pending case No. 184/2023…
On 15th January 2023, The Terrorism Circuit No.1 in Badr Criminal Court, headed by the Judge Muhammad Saeed El-Sherbiny, as an Emergency State Security Court (ESSC), sentenced on Case No. 653/2021 Emergency State Security, which contains 103 defendants, including 29…
On January 2 2023, EFHR monitored that SSSP- Supreme State Security Prosecution imprisoned the citizen Akram Azmy Abdulaziz (49 years) for fifteen days pending Case No.2515/2022, on accusations of joining a banned terrorist group and spreading false news, and misusing…
We, the undersigned organizations, express our solidarity with former political prisoner Ramy Shaath, and his wife Ms. Céline Lebrun-Shaath, in their complaint against the Egyptian government. The complaint was submitted with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)…
The undersigned organizations condemn the arrest of Egyptian-American citizen Sherif Osman in the UAE, amid fears of deporting him to Egypt. We call on the Emirati authorities to immediately release Osman, and call on members of the international community not…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights published a report entitled: “A Judiciary President” on using Emergency State Security Courts to Prosecute Political Activists and Human Rights defenders, to shed light on continued human rights violations targeting different segments of civil…
قررت نيابة أمن الدولة العليا بتاريخ 5 ديسمبر2022 إحالة القضية رقم 26 لسنة 2021 حصر أمن دولة عليا إلى محكمة الجنايات باتهامات من بينها الانضمام لجماعة إرهابية، وتمويل وإمداد جماعة إرهابية فى الداخل والخارج ببيانات من هدفها زعزعة وتكدير السلم…
We, the undersigned Egyptian and international non-governmental organizations, urge you to take action to end the restrictive and arbitrary measures imposed on members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). These measures, which include travel bans, asset freezes and…