The undersigned human rights organizations reject the government’s draft of the Personal Status Law, published on February 23rd and presented before Egypt’s House of Representatives pending approval, joining over 300 feminist organizations and public figures issuing statements renouncing the amendments.…
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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…
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…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights has observed the performance of the terrorism circuits in reviewing the renewal of pretrial detention orders during 2020, as well as the number of cases, defendants, the release decisions and decisions to maintain imprisonment. The…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights has published today a report named: ” 336 days of violations ” on violations against dissidents imprisoned in five state security cases during 2020. In light of the large number of cases pending before the State…
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the persecution of employees of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and Egyptian civil society by the Egyptian government. We urge the global community and their respective governments to do the same and join…
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…
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…