May 3rd marks the 28th anniversary of the annual World Press Freedom Day while also marking the first anniversary of the Egyptian state’s latest wide-scale campaign against press freedom. 98 …
Egypt | Retrial in Case 173/2011 welcomed by rights groups
The undersigned organizations welcome the Cassation Court’s decision today April 5th to order a retrial in Case no. 173/2011, known as the Foreign Funding Case, as a positive step in …
Rights groups: Egypt’s illegitimate presidential election must not be recognized
The undersigned independent rights organizations condemn the National Elections Commission (NEC) statement issued this evening, April 2, 2018 on Egypt’s 2018 presidential election, declaring an “overwhelming” victory for Abdel Fattah …
Egypt: Suspend death sentences issued after unjust trials in military courts
The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the ruling on Monday March 26th, 2018 upholding the death penalty for two students, Ahmed Amin al-Ghazali and Abd al-Basir, despite grave violations of due …
Independent Egyptian Rights NGOs: Eliminating Prospects of Peaceful Transfer of Power Risks Pushing Egypt to the Verge of a Precarious Transformation
Re: Memorandum from Independent Egyptian Rights Organizations to the UN Secretary-General Concerning the Egyptian Presidential Elections
Egypt: Freedom for human rights lawyer Ezzat Ghoneim, detained for “rights terrorism”
“المحور الحقوقي للإرهاب” احدث إدعاءات الداخلية المصرية لملاحقة المنظمات الحقوقية المصريةلمدة ثلاث أيام، اختفى المحامي الحقوقي عزت غنيم مدير التنسيقية المصرية للحقوق الحريات في أول مارس الجاري، قبل أن يظهر …
Oral intervention on Egypt at the UN Human Rights Council 37th Session
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies delivered an oral statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council 37th session held in Geneva in March, highlighting the unprecedented deterioration of …
Egypt: Announcing the campaign to end the death penalty
منذ 26 ديسمبر 2017: 0 حكم إعدام منفذ نحن مجموعة من المدافعين والمدافعات عن حقوق الإنسان هالنا الارتفاع غير المسبوق في استخدام عقوبة الإعدام في مصر. حيث شهدنا في ظل النظام الحالي زيادة في معدل إصدار وتنفيذ أحكام …
Egypt: Dismiss Charges, Uphold Constitutional Obligations towards Nubians
Thirty-two Nubian activists on trial for peacefully demanding their constitutionally enshrined ‘right of return’ to their ancestral lands are expected to face a final verdict tomorrow March 13, to be …