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The State Security Prosecution (SSSP) has decided to detain translator and cartoonist Ashraf Omar in Case No. 1968/ 2024 on charges of joining a terrorist group, spreading false news, and misusing social media, following his forcible disappearance for two days.…
More than two years after the reactivation of the Pardon Committee at the end of April 2022, EFHR has observed the continued modest numbers of releases in political cases announced by the Pardon Committee and the Public Prosecution, compared to…
The State Security Prosecution -SSSP released activists who were detained by security forces on 23 April while participating in a protest in front of the UN Women’s Office demanding the protection of women in Gaza and Sudan, on bail varying…
EFHR today monitored a decision of the State Security Prosecution- SSSP on April 4, 2024, to imprison ten citizens and political activists, including students, for 15 days pending case No. 1277/2024, on accusations of participating in a terrorist group and…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights condemns the crackdown carried out by the authorities last night and early this morning on April 4th, which targeted political activists who demonstrated yesterday alongside citizens and politicians in front of the Journalists Syndicate…
EFHR documented on February 19, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution- SSSP to detain citizen Mahmoud Ismail Mohamed Abdelhamid (32 years old ) for fifteen days pending investigation in Case No. 717 of 2024, after he was…
EFHR documented on February 21, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution- SSSP to detain citizen Mohamed Atef Eid Farhat (26 years old – electrician) for fifteen days pending investigation in Case No. 717 of 2024, after he…
EFHR monitored on February 14, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) to renew the detention of Islam Mamoun Massir Mohamed Mamoun and Hazem Ahmed Saeed Ibrahim for 15 days pending investigation in case No. 3036/2023, accusing…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) monitored on February 15, 2024, the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) to detain citizen Mohamed Rabie Abdel Hadi Mohamed (45 years old – owner of a gold shop) for 15…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights has monitored today that the Mataria Misdemeanor Court has postponed the hearing of case No 16336/ 2023, Mataria Misdemeanor, in which the former potential presidential candidate Ahmed Tantawi and his campaign coordinator, Mohamed Abu…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights reported on October 22, 2023, that the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) has imprisoned 14 individuals from the Alexandria Governorate due to their participation in a protest in support of Palestine on Friday, October…
A Joint Statement by 48 Human Rights Organizations from Eight Arab Countries The undersigned Arab human rights organizations call on permanent member states of the United Nations Security Council and member states of the League of Arab States to take…
Today, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights monitored the investigation of Hani Basit Ali Suleiman (23 years old – a car broker) before the Supreme State Security Prosecution- SSSP. Suleiman, a resident of Matrouh City in northwest Egypt, was arrested…
On September 11, 2023, the Egyptian Front for Human Rights monitored the decision of the Supreme State Security Prosecution- SSSP to renew the detention of Amr Ali Atiya (a police officer) for 15 days in case No. 2023/ 2023 due…
Today, the Supreme State Security Prosecution detained citizen Gamal Abdel Hameed Ziada, the father of journalist and Egyptian Journalists Syndicate member Ahmed Gamal Ziada, who is currently in exile. He is held in Case No. 2064/2023, accused of joining an…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights demands the immediate release of Ahmed Abdel Salam Hussein Salem (44 years old, factory owner), a member of the Supreme Body and a deputy of the president of the Strong Egypt Party and chairman…
On Thursday, 11 May 2023, a security force abducted Moaz al-Sharqawi from his home in the Mokattam neighborhood of Cairo during daytime hours. His location remains unknown and his family or lawyers have not been able to communicate with him.…
Today, May 4, 2023, the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) decided to detain the citizen: Muhammad Naguib Mahmoud Muhammad Tantawi, the uncle of the former parliamentarian Ahmed Tantawi (Former teacher’s union candidate in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate (68 years old )…
On June 23, 2021, EFHR monitored that the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) imprisoned Aya Ibrahim Yahya Muhammad (22 years old – works in a beauty centre) on case No. 910/2021, and the Public Prosecution charged her with joining a…
On April 1, 2023, EFHR monitored that the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) imprisoned the citizen Amer Abdel-Harith Mahmoud Muhammad (45 years old – hotel coordinator in Kuwait) for 15 days pending case No. 392/2023 on accusations of joining…