We, the undersigned human rights organizations, call on UN Special Rapporteurs, and Members of the European Parliament, and representatives in national Parliaments of European States, to urgently intervene and communicate …
Breaking the Silence: Egypt’s unprecedented repression scrutinized at the United Nations
(13 November 2019 – Geneva) Egypt’s human rights record over the last four years came under scrutiny at the United Nations today, as part of the Human Rights Council’s (HRC) …
As the United Nations Begins its Review of Egypt’s Human Rights Record, CIHRS is Launching a Campaign to Lift the Travel Bans on Egyptian Human Rights Defenders
Today Egypt will be subject to review under the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process in Geneva. Scores of Egyptian human rights activists who have actively participated in gathering …
Egypt: If the state is concerned about its image during the UPR, it should focus on preventing human rights violations rather than preventing violations from being exposed
CIHRS Egypt director Mohamed Zaree files request to public prosecutor to attend UPR Mohamed Zaree, director of the Egypt Program at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and …
Egypt: Systematic torture is a state policy
Joint UN submission by rights groups exposes endemic torture and appalling conditions in Egypt’s prisons Harrowing testimonies of systematic torture continue being too frequently heard as the date for Egypt’s …
Egypt: European Parliament calls on Member states and other EU institutions to stand against direly intensifying human rights crisis
Amid the Egyptian government’s sharp escalation in its crackdown on dissent and freedom of expression, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) commends the European Parliament’s adoption of an …
300 UN recommendations spurned by the Egyptian government; 12 demands must be urgently implemented before next month’s UPR
Egypt: Newly released rights report details direly declining human rights situation since 2014Egypt’s human rights situation is at its worst since 2014, as corroborated by a newly released report by …
Egypt: All are vulnerable as government plunges into frenzied quest to eliminate opposition
The arrests of Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mohamed al-Baker are the latest in escalating state retaliation against peaceful and lawful opposition and human rights defenders The undersigned rights organizations denounce …
Sisi’s Egypt: International community should pressure Egypt to immediately cease new wave of repression
Paris, Friday 27 September 2019. With demonstrations set to take place today in Egypt, FIDH and CIHRS fear that demonstrators may face intensified repression and be confronted with lethal force …
Egypt: Rights groups call for immediate release of protesters, political party leaders, and presidential candidates
UN must be invited to investigate the situation in Egypt The brutal crackdown by Egyptian state security, which in the last few days was marked by the arrests of nearly …