Brief
Al-Dostor Party (The Consitution Party) is currently embroiled in an internal and legal crisis, highlighting the controversial role of the Political Parties Affairs Committee (PPAC) in resolving party disputes. Instead of mitigating the crisis, the committee’s interventions and decisions have…
The right to visit prisons, detention places is one of the main mechanisms and powers granted to the NCHR (NCHR) under Law No. 197 of 2017 (Clause 16 of Article 3). This law enables council members to meet with to…
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…
Introduction This series aims to monitor the Egyptian presidential elections in its 2024-2023 cycle by comparing them to constitutional and legal frameworks, ensuring the proper conduct of such a significant event. These presidential elections determine the occupant of the highest…
“The Egyptian Front for Human Rights launches a series of follow-ups and papers that shed light on the performance of the national dialogue, with a greater focus on the work of the Human Rights and Public Freedoms Committee. This evaluative…
Background This paper reviews the human rights situation in Egyptian detention facilities one year after the Egyptian government launched the National Human Rights Strategy on September 11, 2021. The strategy’s announcement was accompanied by an extensive public relations campaign targeting…
As Mohamed Adel celebrates his 34th birthday we are reminded that he has now spent a quarter of his life in jail for the crime of having an opinion. The Detention of April 6 Movement media spokesperson and cofounder, Mohamed…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights documented gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls, that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, in North Sinai by State and the armed group: Wilayat Sinai. The report is based on interviews…
According to our documentation, Tora Maximum Security II Prison is overcrowded, poorly ventilated, and short of potable water and hygiene tools. prisoners struggle to find decent food and suffer from a systematic shortage of health care facilities and a widespread…
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…
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…
The Egyptian Front monitored the terrorism circuits during the first half of 2020 to renew the pretrial detention of at least 8,311 defendants, in which it has issued decisions to release approximately 122 of them, or about 1.5% of the…
Egyptian Front has relied on news, reports documented by rights organization as well as interviews with former prisoners to hereby introduce Port Said Women’s prison and present its conditions from 2013 and until now. Egyptian Front has generally concluded that…
Egyptian Front documented a pattern of violations in the Terrorism Circuit Courts (TCCs) similar to other exceptional courts in Egypt that don’t comply with the guarantees of the right to fair trial. We focused our analysis on cases that have…
Human Rights Council 43rd session ITEM 6 – ADOPTION OF THE UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW (UPR) OF EGYPT 13 March 2020 Speaker: Kareem Taha Thank you, Mr. Vice-President This is a joint statement by the International Service for Human Rights and…
North Sinai has been in a continuous state of emergency since October 2014 under the pretext of the war on terror, which makes it vulnerable for ongoing violations of the basic rights for individuals. On February 9, 2018, following the…
The year 2018 showed an unprecedented increase in issuing death sentences by the Egyptian Criminal Courts and the Military Judiciary for those convicted of committing criminal acts or crimes of terrorism or political violence. In 2018, at least 737…
Several protests broke out on September 20 in a number of Egyptian governorates, including Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and Giza, demanding the overthrow of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Security forces responded by arresting hundreds of people from September 20, pending…
{:en}Relevant recommendations accepted by Egypt in 2014 In the 2nd cycle of Egypt’s UPR, Egypt received the following recommendations relating to the death penalty: Ratify the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which provides…
{:en} Download the brief in PDF Relevant recommendations accepted by Egypt in 2014 In the 1nd UPR cycle in 2014, Egypt received several recommendations from USA and Mexico and Nederland regarding the need to fully respect human rights while countering…