Press Statement

After Its Individual and Joint Participation in Sending Submissions to the SCA: EFHR Welcomes the SCA Recommendation to Downgrade the NCHR to B Status

25 November, 2024 Press Statement

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…

Based on a Complaint Submitted by the EFHR: UN Experts Condemn Egypt’s Arbitrary Detention and Torture of Citizens for Criticizing Economic Conditions on Social Media

8 October, 2024 Press Statement

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…

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.

12 June, 2024 Press Statement

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…

EFHR Condemns Escalating Prosecution and Detention of Citizens for Criticizing and Suffering from the Economic Crisis

26 March, 2024 Press Statement

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…

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

14 September, 2023 Press Statement

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 expresses its concern over the potential arbitrary deportation of two detained Egyptian opposition figures in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

5 August, 2023 Press Statement

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…

Egypt: Rights organizations send new list of prisoners to Presidential Pardon Committee and call on Egyptian government to resolve the prisoners’ file

28 July, 2022 Press Statement

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

31 May, 2022 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,…

Call for urgent action against the arrest and disappearance of researcher and HRD Ahmed Samir Abdelhady Ali

5 February, 2021 Brief Press Statement

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…

Release doctors: Egyptian authorities combat coronavirus by arresting doctors instead of responding to their Demands

30 June, 2020 Press Statement

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.…

Egytian Front demands discharging judge Shereen Fahmy, considering him a political opponent rather than a judge as he is involved in the slow death of Mursi

25 November, 2019 Press Statement

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…

The Egyptian Front addresses a letter to the President of the National Council for Human Rights refuting his recent remarks on the human rights situation in Egypt

4 August, 2019 Letter Press Statement

{: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…

Open Letter to the State Information Service on The treatment of children by law enforcement and judicial authorities in Egypt

4 December, 2018 Letter Press Statement

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.