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Egyptian Front published a report called: “Stifling the public sphere in Egypt” about the violations committed against defendants held on remand in 8 state security cases for the exercise of their right to organize, freedom of expression, and peaceful assembly…
After 150 days of renewals of detention in front of the state security prosecution – the time allowed for the prosecution to renew detention without giving reasons or explanation for the cause of deprivation of freedom, Lawyer Mohamed el Baqer,…
The undersigned organizations demand the immediate and unconditional release of Patrick George Zaki, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and graduate student at the University of Bologna, together with an investigation into the torture Zaki endured during…
Over the last three years, the Trump administration has increasingly implemented one-sided policies favoring the Government of Israel that contravene international law and reward Israel’s illegal actions. These policies reinforce repression and incite violence, posing significant risks to regional stability.…
The undersigned human rights organizations denounce the Supreme State Security Prosecution’s illegitimate practice of “recycling cases,” and call for its immediate discontinuation. The renewal of Mohamed al-Qassas’ detention yesterday January 21th is the latest injustice incurred by the “recycling” or…
Egyptian Front published today a report called “Forgotten in Al Qanater” to highlight Violating rights of women detained inside Al Qanater prison. It attempts to determine the role of gender in exacerbating violations against women through reflecting upon how women’s…
Following the death of dual Egyptian- American national Mustafa Kassem on Monday January 13th, the undersigned rights organizations renew their demand for international and independent oversight and inspection of Egypt’s prisons. The swelling number of deaths in prisons since the…
Egyptian Front published a report on violations of the rights in the State Security Case 741/2019, which includes a number of activists such as Mustafa Maher and Haitham Mohamedin, and Mrs. Rania Al-Goaili, who have been subjected to a number…
Days before his detention renewal session scheduled for Sunday, December 22, the undersigned Egyptian rights organizations renew their demand for the immediate release of Ibrahim Ezz El-Din, Urban Researcher at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms. We condemn his…
The United Nations Human Rights Council held in its thirty-fourth session a comprehensive review session of the human rights file in Egypt on November 13, 2019. In this session, 133 countries submitted no less than 385 recommendations, which are the…
The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations condemn the continued detention of Ramy Kamel, a human rights activist and defender of Coptic Christian minority rights in Egypt. We call on the Supreme State Security Prosecution for his immediate release during the detention…
All defendants1 in the Hope Coalition Case (no. 930 of 2019) had their detention renewed –for an additional 45 days – on Thursday November 28th, following three days of hearings in the Cairo Criminal Court. As affirmed by former parliamentarian…
Barely ten days have elapsed since the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, in which Egypt received 372 recommendations to improve the human rights situation – the largest number in its history since 2010 – reflecting the deterioration of…
The Egyptian Front indicts Judge Mohamed Shereen Fahmi for the death of former President Mohamed Mursi during his trial, basing on his constructive malice which endangers the lives of the defendants in cases he adjudicated through his intransigence with the…
Egyptian legislation provides for at least 78 articles authorizing the use of the death penalty as a punishment for 104 crimes, in a time where the world is heading towards abolishing the death penalty. Egyptian courts witnessed a surge in…