Press Statement
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) welcomes the adoption of the resolution on the human rights situation in Egypt at the NGO Forum preceding the 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on…
Based on documented information submitted by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights concerning 12 individuals (out of 15) who were subjected to case recycling, prolonged arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, terrorism-related designation, and the absence of fair trial guarantees, a group of…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) expresses its deep concern over the growing violations against lawyers appearing before the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP). The EFHR considers these developments part of a systematic pattern aimed at weakening the legal…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) welcomes the decision of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to return the Criminal Procedure Code to the House of Representatives for amendments to some of its provisions. However, EFHR calls for the amendments and…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) strongly condemns the referral of dozens of lawyers and other human rights defenders in Egypt to criminal courts on the grounds of activities related to their professional or human rights work. While many…
EFHR condemns the arrest of six Egyptian citizens on charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading false news, based on their attempt to organize an Egyptian convoy to lift the siege on Gaza. The EFHR considers their interrogation by…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights stated that the downgrading of Egypt’s NCHR to B status is an important step in recognizing the lack of independence of the NCHR, as well as its complicity in grave human rights abuses in…
Several UN human rights experts issued a letter addressed to the Egyptian government on July 30, 2024. The letter was signed by the Special Rapporteur on the freedom of opinion and expression, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the Working…
EFHR expresses its deep concern regarding the information received from Badr 1 Prison/Rehabilitation Center about the escalating violations against detainees, including power cuts and their impact on the ventilation system and detainees’ health. This led the detainees to announce a…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) condemns the Egyptian authorities’ resort to security solutions in dealing with citizens expressing their grievances over the current economic crisis. This is evidenced by the arbitrary detention of critics of current economic policies…
A number of experts affiliated with the United Nations have issued a letter addressed to the Egyptian government on July 12, 2023. The letter signed by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms while counter-terrorism,…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights is deeply concerned about the possibility of arbitrary deportation by Bahraini authorities of two Egyptian opposition figures, El-Sayed Mohamed Mahmoud Ajez and Mohamed Al-Iraqi Saad Hassanein, who were arrested on August 2, 2023, based…
Three months following Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision to reactivate the Presidential Pardon Committee, the undersigned human rights organizations call for political detainees to be pardoned. Yesterday 27 July, a group of Egyptian human rights organizations sent their second…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) expresses its deep concern about the deportation and refoulment of dissents to Egypt under the pretext of “the fight against terrorism”, which is used to target human rights defenders and any political opposition,…
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…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights condemns the Egyptian authorities for resorting to security solutions to address the problems of the health sector amid coronavirus spread. Death, infection, and arbitrary arrest of doctors has been on the rise since the spread.…
The Egyptian Front indicts Judge Mohamed Shereen Fahmi for the death of former President Mohamed Mursi during his trial, basing on his constructive malice which endangers the lives of the defendants in cases he adjudicated through his intransigence with the…
{:en}Mr. Mohamed Fayek President of the National Council for Human Rights After Greetings, The Egyptian Front for Human Rights has took note of a number of fallacies and misconceptions that may reflect the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR)’s…
The letter is Amnesty International’s response to the press release entitled Amnesty International’s statement on the torture of children in Egypt is not based on tangible evidence and lacks accuracy, which was issued by the Human Rights Unit of the State Information Service on 22 November.