Today, 14 June 2022, marks the International Fair Trial Day (IFTD), which will be observed for the second time worldwide. The focus country of the IFTD this year is Egypt, …
Egypt: President must overturn unjust verdicts against politicians Aboul- Fotouh, Mohamed al-Qassas, Moaz al-Sharqawi, and Yahia Hussein Abdel Hadi
View PostInternational letter calling for the UK government to secure the release from of prominent Egyptian-British activist blogger and software developer Alaa Abdel Fattah, unjustly detained since 2019
To Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom Elizabeth Truss, and the UK Foreign Office British-Egyptian activist, blogger, and software developer Alaa Abd El-Fattah …
Joint Response to the EBRD’s 2022-27 Strategy for Egypt
On March 6, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) published its 2022-27 Egypt Country Strategy. The undersigned organizations commend the EBRD’s more realistic appraisal of the human rights situation in Egypt …
Egypt: National Security, Public Prosecution, and Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital implicated in suspicious death of economist Ayman Hadhoud
View PostEgypt: Halt execution of 16 men sentenced to death by an Emergency Court
The undersigned human rights organizations call upon the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to halt the execution of 16 people sentenced to death in July 2021, in Case No. …
IMF: Prioritize Social Protection in Egypt Loan Talks
New Rights-Respecting Approach Needed in Any New Agreement The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should ensure that any new loan program with Egypt expands social protection, strengthens judicial independence, and addresses corruption and …
Egypt: Execution of seven people following unfair trials further exposes hollowness of state’s claims to new human rights strategy
The signatory human rights organizations condemn the execution of seven people in Egypt on 8 and 10 March 2022, following trials in which the defendants were forcibly disappeared, tortured, and …
Egypt: End arbitrary detention, Free all arbitrarily detained persons
Twelve Egyptian activists have been on hunger strike since early February 2022 in protest of their prolonged pre-trial detention at Tora Prison Complex. Among them, Abdelrahman Tarek (Moka), Ahmed Maher …