Dear Members of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, We, the undersigned 27 freedom of expression and human rights organisations, are writing regarding the ongoing and arbitrary detention of the British-Egyptian citizen and award-winning writer and activist, Alaa…
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This submission to the Committee of the Rights of the Child (CRC), ahead of the adoption of the Concluding Observations for Egypt at its 96th session, is based on information gathered by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights and Minority…
EFHR today monitored a decision of the State Security Prosecution- SSSP on April 4, 2024, to imprison ten citizens and political activists, including students, for 15 days pending case No. 1277/2024, on accusations of participating in a terrorist group and…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights condemns the crackdown carried out by the authorities last night and early this morning on April 4th, which targeted political activists who demonstrated yesterday alongside citizens and politicians in front of the Journalists Syndicate…
The Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Mahmoud Hussein who is facing 25 years in prison simply for wearing a T-shirt with an anti-torture slogan, 15 Egyptian and international human rights organizations said today. Mahmoud Hussein has been arbitrarily…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) condemns the Egyptian authorities’ resort to security solutions in dealing with citizens expressing their grievances over the current economic crisis. This is evidenced by the arbitrary detention of critics of current economic policies…
To the Prime Ministers of Belgium, Alexander De Croo, Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen We, undersigned civil society organizations, contact you ahead of your visit to his…
This report is the final publication in the series of monitoring the Egyptian presidential elections (2024-2030) launched by the Egyptian Human Rights Front (EFHR) following the start of the electoral race in September and October 2023. This final report provides…
EFHR documented on February 19, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution- SSSP to detain citizen Mahmoud Ismail Mohamed Abdelhamid (32 years old ) for fifteen days pending investigation in Case No. 717 of 2024, after he was…
EFHR documented on February 21, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution- SSSP to detain citizen Mohamed Atef Eid Farhat (26 years old – electrician) for fifteen days pending investigation in Case No. 717 of 2024, after he…
During the year 2023, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) continued to observe the Egyptian authorities implementing, issuing and upholding death sentences for individuals in criminal cases and others on political grounds, despite a noticeable decline in the number…
The Egyptian authorities and affiliated groups have responded to recent reporting by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, an Egyptian human rights group with a focus on Egypt’s militarized North Sinai, with a smear campaign and threats against the group…
EFHR monitored on February 14, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) to renew the detention of Islam Mamoun Massir Mohamed Mamoun and Hazem Ahmed Saeed Ibrahim for 15 days pending investigation in case No. 3036/2023, accusing…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) monitored on February 15, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) to detain citizen Mohamed Rabie Abdel Hadi Mohamed (45 years old – owner of a gold shop) for 15…
Introduction: The Egyptian Front for Human Rights issues (EFHR) this annual monitoring report to track the performance of Terrorism Circuits Courts (TCC) in the pre-trial phase and monitor their performance in sessions to renew the detention orders of defendants before…
Thirteen years after Egyptians courageously took to the streets and forced the autocratic president Hosni Mubarak to step down after nearly three decades in power, we, the undersigned organizations, express our unceasing solidarity with the Egyptian people’s unmet demands for…
The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian authorities’ continued policy of not releasing political detainees after the end of their prison term or after dropping charges against them. Political detainees continue to be detained pending new cases in what…
JOHANNESBURG / PRAGUE The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) and global civil society alliance CIVICUS call on Egypt to immediately free human rights lawyer Hoda Abdel Moneim from prison ahead of her 65th birthday on Sunday January 28. Abdel…
The Egyptian authorities must immediately release Badr Mohamed, who was unjustly convicted in January 2023 in connection to protests and sentenced to five years in prison after a grossly unfair trial, said the undersigned civil society organizations. Badr Mohamed was…
Egyptian organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities’ refusal, specifically the Immigration and Passports Authority, to extend or issue permits for the temporary entry and residence of Gazans stranded in Egypt. We call on the Egyptian authorities to urgently issue a decision…