On 15th July 2022, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) sent a letter to two German Bundestag members to request urgent intervention to induce the Egyptian Government to release the political and environmental activist and expert Dr. Ahmed Al-Kholy.…
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Dear Foreign Affairs Minister Baerbock and State Minister and Special Envoy Morgan, Ahead of the 18-19 July 2022 Petersberg Climate Dialogue, which you will co-chair with Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi, we 21 national, regional and international civil society organisations are writing…
36 organizations urge Egyptian authorities to end crackdown on civil society organizations and peaceful protests for a successful COP27 Egyptian authorities should ease their grip on civic space and uphold the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly…
30 June 2022 The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the decision issued by Circuit 28 of the New Cairo Criminal Court on 23 June 2022 to reject the appeal submitted by the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE)…
For two years and nine months, the Egyptian authorities continued to arbitrarily arrest the environmental expert, Ahmed Abdel Latif Al-Khouli (68 years), by putting him in case No. 1358/2019, in which he is accused of leading a terrorist group. However,…
June 23, 2022 – Human rights defender Mohamed El-Baqer must be released immediately and unconditionally, stated 19 human rights organisations. His detention is arbitrary, aimed at punishing him for his legitimate human rights work and is only putting his life…
On the occasion of International Fair Trial Day, the Egyptian Front for Huma Rights (EFHR) joins a coalition of over 60 civil society organizations and bar associations from around the world to underscore the critical situation of the right to…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) expresses its deep concern about the deportation and refoulment of dissents to Egypt under the pretext of “the fight against terrorism”, which is used to target human rights defenders and any political opposition,…
The undersigned organizations condemn the unjust sentences handed down on 29 May by the Emergency State Security Felony Court in Case no. 1059 of 2021 (entered as no. 440 of 2018) against three prominent public opposition figures. Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh,…
1- Addressing the crisis of the arbitrary detention of political prisoners in Egypt is a necessary, urgent and long overdue step. Egypt has become one of the world’s top jailers of political dissidents in recent years in terms of the…
We, the undersigned organizations, express significant alarm regarding the death of economic researcher, and economic advisor and member of the liberal Egyptian Reform and Development Party, Mr. Ayman Hadhoud, who died while in the custody of Egyptian security forces following…
The undersigned human rights organizations followed up on the tragic circumstances of the death of economic researcher Ayman Hadhoud, which was announced by his family on April 9, after they received a call from a police officer informing them of…
April 7, 2022 Egyptian security personnel and prison staff are employing systematic sexual violence against detainees and their loved ones in a widespread violation of human rights, the Freedom Initiative and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights said in a harrowing new…
The following report examines instances of sexual violence in Egyptian prisons from the period of 2015 to 2022. The report finds that Egypt employs abuse in detention as a method to coerce, punish, and bring a population under the control…
The undersigned human rights organizations called upon the President of the Republic to halt the execution of the mass death sentences issued against 16 people in July 2021, in Case No. 303 of 2018, known in the media as “the…
Egypt’s parliament approved the amendment of several provisions of Law no. 369 of 1956 on the regulation of prisons and it was ratified by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on 20 March. These amendments encompass changes to the following terms: ‘prisons’…
Egyptian Front monitored the arrest of HRD Youssef Mansour on 24 March 2022, and enforced disappeared for two days, then appeared before the SSSP on 26 March 2022, in Case No.330/2022 on accusations of Joining an illegal group, and spreading…
The signatory human rights organizations condemn the execution of seven people in Egypt on 8 and 10 March 2022, following trials in which the defendants were forcibly disappeared, tortured, and denied their fundamental rights, including their right to a lawyer.…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights condemns the Egyptian authorities’ execution against seven people during the previous two days (March 8 – March 10 2022) in two cases that contained political violence incidents. Those executed defendants were subjected to several…
Twelve Egyptian activists have been on hunger strike since early February 2022 in protest of their prolonged pre-trial detention at Tora Prison Complex. Among them, Abdelrahman Tarek (Moka), Ahmed Maher (Rigo), Galal El Beheriy, and Walid Shawky started hunger strikes…