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The 28th July 2026, EgyptWide for Human Rights, Sinai Foundation for Human Rights (SFHR), and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) announce the publication of their joint report titled “Fishing Under Military Order: Lake Bardawil under the Management of…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights condemn the unfair trials faced by defendants over the past year, particularly before the Badr Criminal Court circuits, known as…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) published a report titled ‘Have the New Prisons Improved Detainee Conditions?’ The report serves as a form of impact assessment, evaluating whether the establishment of five newly operational prison, Badr 1, Badr 3,…
EFHR published a report titled “Their Money Is Our Booty: The Threat to Companies and Local Investment Under the Guise of the War on Terror in Egypt” The report examines the systematic targeting of private companies, assets, and wealth in…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights has issued a report titled “Running in Place Policy,” which examines the deterioration of civil and political rights three years after the implementation of the National Human Rights Strategy. The report critically assesses the…
Joint Report on the Targeting of Egyptian Human Rights Defenders in the Diaspora: Years of Persecution, Reprisals, and Deprivation of Basic Citizenship Rights Press Release The Egyptian Human Rights Forum and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights stated in a…
This report is the final publication in the series of monitoring the Egyptian presidential elections (2024-2030) launched by the Egyptian Human Rights Front (EFHR) following the start of the electoral race in September and October 2023. This final report provides…
Introduction This series aims to monitor the Egyptian presidential elections in its 2024-2023 cycle by comparing them to constitutional and legal frameworks, ensuring the proper conduct of such a significant event. These presidential elections determine the occupant of the highest…
The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, as confirmed by the mid-term report submitted by the Egyptian Taskforce for Human Rights* to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism at the United…
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights published a report entitled: “A Judiciary President” on using Emergency State Security Courts to Prosecute Political Activists and Human Rights defenders, to shed light on continued human rights violations targeting different segments of civil…
The following report examines instances of sexual violence in Egyptian prisons from the period of 2015 to 2022. The report finds that Egypt employs abuse in detention as a method to coerce, punish, and bring a population under the control…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights published a report on monitoring the export rates of light weapons from the Czech Republic to Egypt (2017-2020), based on analyzing the annual reports issued by the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade from 2017…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights published a report entitled: “Life restrained by State Security’s Follow-up” about the National Security’s follow-up policy towards former detainees. Follow-up is a policy that greatly controls the shaping of people’s lives after their release from prison…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights has published a guideline: The “Everyone should Listen!” Ward” As a glossary of prison slang and a guide to the most prominent terms used in Egyptian prisons. This guide was written by a former prisoner, who was…
Egyptian Front has published a report: “Suspended Executions” to highlight on violations of the rights of defendants pending execution in cases of political violence, between years 2013 to 2020. ِِAt these times, the execution wheel is spinning once again in Egypt,…
Summary of violations in the context of counter-terrorism operations by the military in North Sinai Human Rights Watch stated that the counterterrorism policy of the army in Sinai, some of which amount to war crimes, relied on ignoring and…
Egyptian Front for Human Rights has released a report:” Systematic Violations & Overlooked Complaints: 300 Documented testimonies regarding the conditions of Egyptian prisons before the prosecution”. The prisoners suffer increasing violations in Egypt today, especially in light of the persisting…
Egyptian Front published today a report called “Forgotten in Al Qanater” to highlight Violating rights of women detained inside Al Qanater prison. It attempts to determine the role of gender in exacerbating violations against women through reflecting upon how women’s…
Egyptian legislation provides for at least 78 articles authorizing the use of the death penalty as a punishment for 104 crimes, in a time where the world is heading towards abolishing the death penalty. Egyptian courts witnessed a surge in…
For a long time, police probation has increasingly been applied on regular criminals to later include political activists arrested and sentenced to prison in protesting, mobbing, and bullying cases. Those who were sentenced to police probation have to spend a…