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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…
The first half of year 2018 has witnessed exacerbating apprehension and detention of politicians, journalists, bloggers, and human rights activists against the backdrop of their political activism as well as expressing their opinions freely. This came in conjunction with…
The Czech Republic is one of two main sources for light eapons in Egypt, which include automatic rifles, grenades and pistols, some of which are likely to be used by the Egyptian authorities for direct oppression and human rights violations…
The case no. 277 for the year 2019 National Security, known in the media as Allahomma Thawra, began January 2019 in parallel with the fifth memory of the 25th of January revolution. The case includes 54 defendants, 13 of whom…
The Czech Republic, despite being a signatory to the Arms Trade Treaty and belonging to the European Union Council that has a unified position on prohibiting the export of arms to countries violating human rights, continues to arm the Egyptian…
{:en}Joint Submission by: Egyptian Taskforce for Human Rights Related to: Egypt’s UPR UPR session: 34th session of UPR (13th November 2019) This report presents the collective account of Egyptian Human Rights organizations based within and outside Egypt, regarding…
{:en}Geneva, August 2019 “There is no doubt that the respect for human rights and the application of guarantees of fair trial is the higher goal of a developed democratic society that safeguards the rights of citizens, guarantees their equality before…