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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 for Human Rights has released a report:” Systematic Violations & Overlooked Complaints: 300 Documented testimonies regarding the conditions of Egyptian prisons before the prosecution”. The prisoners suffer increasing violations in Egypt today, especially in light of the persisting…
Egyptian Front monitored the death penalty in Egypt during the first half of 2020. It appears that Egyptian authorities insist on using the death penalty in criminal offenses and are widely using it in political cases. This in addition to…
Article no 143 of Egyptian Code of Criminal Procedure stipulates that “In all cases, the period of pretrial detention shall not exceed one-third of the maximum penalty for the crime committed”. Pretrial detention is set at “six months for misdemeanour…
Egyptian Front published a report on violations of the rights in the State Security Case 1358/2019, which includes a number of activists from Independence party who have been subjected to a number of violations since their arrest such as enforced…
Egyptian Front published a report on violations of the rights in the State Security Case 1356/2019, which includes a number of activists such as the blogger Alaa abdel-Fattah, HRD Mohammed Elbaqer, who have been subjected to a number of violations…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In October 12, 2017, 299 defendants – 203 detainees and 96 fugitives – were referred- by the Northern Military Prosecution in Cairo in case No. 64 of 2017, known as the Assistant Attorney General or the Case of Hasm Movement…
For a long time, police probation has increasingly been applied on regular criminals to later include political activists arrested and sentenced to prison in protesting, mobbing, and bullying cases. Those who were sentenced to police probation have to spend a…
The Czech Republic is one of two main sources for light eapons in Egypt, which include automatic rifles, grenades and pistols, some of which are likely to be used by the Egyptian authorities for direct oppression and human rights violations…
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…
Read the full report Egyptian Front for Human Rights has released a report known: “Arbitrary Violations “on violations of the defendants’ rights in the state security case 1338/2019 Those arrested in connection with the September 20 protests Several protests broke…
{:en}Geneva, August 2019 “There is no doubt that the respect for human rights and the application of guarantees of fair trial is the higher goal of a developed democratic society that safeguards the rights of citizens, guarantees their equality before…
In the years following July 2013 the judicial authorities began to issue death sentences excessively in cases where civilians were tried before military courts or before extraordinary chambers such as terrorism tribunals in civil courts. During this period, the authorities carried out executions in 13 cases involving acts of political violence, eight of which were before military courts and five cases before civil courts, the last of which was the executing of nine persons in the case commonly known as “the assassination of the Attorney General” which was widely condemned on local and international levels, raising the number of executed persons in more than five years ago to at least 47 people. In which the defendants faced – with the rest of convicts in these cases – gross violations, breaching the most basic standards of fair trial, which must be met, especially in the death penalty cases.
The case no. 277 for the year 2019 National Security, known in the media as Allahomma Thawra, began January 2019 in parallel with the fifth memory of the 25th of January revolution. The case includes 54 defendants, 13 of whom…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights, Committee for Justice and the Arab Foundation for Civil and Political Rights call on Egyptian authorities to halt the execution of further death sentences and to establish a moratorium on such punishment until a broad…