Joint Statement
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) is scheduled to be held in the southern Sinai city of Sharm el-Sheikh next month, in November. The undersigned human rights organizations call on all attendees of the COP27, including activists, human…
Monday, 10th October 2022, ahead of the settlement of the Parliament Chambers on October 13th, which marks the beginning of the new legislature, 13 Italian and Egyptian civil society organisations call on all political forces elected to represent the Italian…
The undersigned organisations condemn the arbitrary detention of Eritrean asylum-seekers in Egypt and call upon the Egyptian government to abide by international and regional treaties and conventions on refugee rights. Arrests and subsequent violations against Eritrean asylum seekers should immediately…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights condemns the deterioration of detention conditions in the Badr 3 Center for Correction and Rehabilitation, specifically of those who were transferred from the high-security prison 1 “Al-Aqrab” during the last months. After years of…
Thursday, September 29, 2022 marks three years since Egyptian human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer and British-Egyptian writer and pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah were arrested by the Egyptian authorities. As a global coalition of civil society organizations and individuals,…
In the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27) taking place in Egypt’s resort town of Sharm El Sheikh from 7 to18 November 2022, the undersigned organizations, groups and individuals note with great concern the human rights…
23 September 2022 The undersigned human rights organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to intervene quickly to end the detention of blogger and journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan, known as Mohamed Oxygen, stop all forms of violations he faces inside the…
The Egyptian human rights organizations signatory to this statement demand a prompt release of Yehia Helwa, a political activist and member of the Bread and Freedom Party (under establishment), who spent two years in remand detention without being released or…
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, condemn with greatest concern the recent detention of activist Sherif Al Rouby by Egyptian authorities and call for his immediate and unconditional release. After his release in May of this year, Sherif’s renewed detention belies the…
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the arrest of political activist and leading member of the 6th April youth movement, Sherif Al-Roubi, just three months after his release, after a year and a half of pretrial detention. The organizations assert…
Declaring the Egyptian constitution as the basis for the national dialogue necessarily entails that prior to the dialogue, there must be a lifting of the undeclared suspension of the constitution’s rights and liberties provisions, which would render the upholding of…
Declaring the Egyptian constitution as the basis for the national dialogue necessarily entails that prior to the dialogue, there must be a lifting of the undeclared suspension of the constitution’s rights and liberties provisions, which would render the upholding of…
١Amid Israel’s escalating attacks targeting their work, a group of more than 150 Palestinian, regional, and international organizations express our full solidarity with the designated seven leading Palestinian civil society organizations, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq Law in the…
1 August 2022 The undersigned civil society organizations condemn the blocking by the Egyptian authorities of three links to access the Al-Manassa website within approximately 72 hours, starting from Thursday, 14 July. The blocking occurs as part of a…
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian authorities for the continued imprisonment of journalists, bloggers, online content creators, and others under Case no. 440 and Case no. 441 of 2022. The combined group of defendants in cases no. 440…
The torture and assault of political activist Ahmed Douma, and the medical negligence and assault of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy is condemned by the undersigned human rights organizations. The undersigned call on the Public Prosecution to launch an urgent and…
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)…
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…