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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…
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…
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.…
Less than a month passed since the Egyptian government presented its draft of amending both the Anti-Terrorism Law 94/2015 and the Terrorist Entities Law 8/2018 to the House of Representatives. The House approved the majority of amendments to the two…
“If the Egyptian family would approve” was the hashtag used in circulating campaigns on social media to release women arrested on charges of violating the principles and family values of the Egyptian society. On April 23, 2020, the government started…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights condemns violations committed by the Ministry of Interior against defendants regarding their right to communicate with their families. A huge number of defendants have suffered from complete isolation since the Ministry of Interior announced visits…
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…
Against the background of the public protests that broke against President Abd el Fattah el Sisi in September 2019, the authorities have expanded the targeting of activists and civil society workers, politicians, and academics including defendants accused in case no…
The United Nations Human Rights Council held in its thirty-fourth session a comprehensive review session of the human rights file in Egypt on November 13, 2019. In this session, 133 countries submitted no less than 385 recommendations, which are the…
{:en}Over the past few days, a large number of official institutions and various Egyptian media have launched a massive propaganda campaign against human rights organizations, saying they are instigating the public against the political system in addition to cooperating with…