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Based on complaints submitted by EFHR: UN Special Rapporteurs on counter-terrorism, freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory, and the Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention and Enforced Disappearances condemned the arrest of individuals for participating in peaceful solidarity protests with Palestine in October 2023

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Based on documented information submitted by the EFHR, a group of UN experts issued an official communication to the Egyptian government on 24 December 2025 (Ref. AL EGY 8/2025), expressing grave concern over the arrest of at dozens of individuals…

Based on complaints submitted by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights: UN experts condemn the referral of more than 90 lawyers, including human rights lawyers and defenders, to terrorism circuits because of their legal work, and affirm that these practices constitute serious violations of human rights and fair trial guarantees

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Based on complaints and documented information submitted by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights, a number of United Nations experts sent an official communication to the Egyptian government on 13 November 2025, expressing their grave concern and strong condemnation of…

Based on complaints submitted by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights: UN experts condemn human rights violations committed against 15 Egyptian citizens, including politicians and journalists, involving arbitrary detention, case rotation, enforced disappearance, torture, denial of fair trial guarantees, and unlawful designation on terrorism lists

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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…

Increasing Restrictions on Lawyers Following the Appointment of a New Prosecutor General for the Supreme State Security Prosecution: Stop Undermining What Remains of the Right to Defense and Judicial Independence

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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…

Before it becomes another Badr 3: EFHR calls for improving detention conditions in Badr 1 Prison and an immediate halt to arbitrary punitive measures in response to a protest strike by detainees inside.

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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…

Based on complaints submitted by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights, United Nations experts have condemned human rights violations against individuals accused of cases known as “Kata’ib Helwan” and “The Joker,” among others, for their criticism of the economic situation

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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 extradition and Forced deportation of Egyptian dissents is an unlawful repressive tactic aimed to target dissidents abroad under the pretext of “fighting terrorism”

Human rights while countering terrorism Press Statement

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,…

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