The undersigned organizations express their grave concern at the unjust sentence handed down yesterday, February 4, 2015, against 229 defendants, among them the political activist Ahmed Douma and the officer …
Extrajudicial Killing of Demonstrators and Rights Defenders, Witnesses Accused of Disturbing Public Security and Journalists Threatened with Death
The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the extrajudicial killings of peaceful demonstrators carried out by Egyptian security forces on January 24 and 25, 2015. On January 24, 2015, human rights defender …
Board of Trustees of CIHRS’ Regional Office in Tunis Makes Terrorism a Permanent Item on its Meeting Agendas
The board of trustees of the regional office of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Tunis decided to make terrorism and human rights a permanent item on its …
Saudi Arabia Flogs a Citizen and Egypt Imprisons another for ‘Offending Islam’
Bahey El Din Hassan, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Director, stated that there is no qualitative difference between the position of terrorist groups and that of some Arab …
A Way to Harass Democracy Advocates and a Serious Violation to the Constitution
The undersigned organizations condemn the recent decisions to ban some democracy and human rights advocates from traveling, based on rulings of the investigative judge in the “foreign funding case.” The …
Combating terrorism must include religious reform, which cannot take place in the abscene of comprehensive political reform
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) condemns the terrorist acts that shook the French capital city, Paris last week, and which took the lives of 12 people at …
Rights Organizations meets with UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs to discuss human rights developments in Egypt
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies’ Cairo office hosted a meeting yesterday, December 13, between Jeffery Feltman, United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and 6 Egyptian human rights organizations …
After 20 years: CIHRS moves its regional and international programs outside Egypt
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies has decided to move its regional and international programs outside Egypt in light of the ongoing threats to human rights organizations and the …
Bahey eldin Hassan: In Egypt Demonstrating is More Serious than Mass Murder
To mark the release of its report on the right of peaceful assembly, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network organized a special seminar on December 8 at the European Parliament in …
CIHRS: the law is a way to evade failure of security apparatus to counter terrorism and constitutes a danger to citizens’ remaining rights and liberties and dignity of constitution
This morning, December 3, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies issued a legal commentary on the proposed law on terrorist entities, approved by the Cabinet, led by Ibrahim Mehleb, …