Urgent Appeal: Egypt: National and International Human Rights Organizations are Under Attack Egyptian security forces, in uniform and in civilian clothes, and public prosecutors have stormed the offices of: Arab …
Continued Militarization: Increased Violence Against Women Human Rights Defenders During Dispersal of Cabinet Sit-in
The targeting of Women human rights defenders[1] seen over the course of an entire day, when the sit-in at the cabinet building was dispersed at dawn on December 16, is …
Egypt: Alarming Reports of Kidnapping, Death Threats, and Assault of Activists and Protesters
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in particular within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and …
Assessing Media Outlet Performance During The First Phase Of 2011 Egyptian parliamentary Election
Media Monitoring Report 2011 Tahrir events and campaigns’ advertising The events erupting in Tahrir Square on the 19th of November greatly affected the election process and its media …
Crisis of Human Rights in Egypt The Bitter Results of Ten Months in the Grip of the Military
On the 19th of November, 2011, Egyptians took to the streets and squares of Egypt once more in peaceful protest, demanding a true civil, democratic state consistent with their dreams …
Egyptian Rights Organizations Demand Indictment of Leading Security Officers
After three days of brutal violence against demonstrators: Egyptian Rights Organizations Demand Indictment of Leading Security Officers The list includes leading officers from the Ministry of Interior, including …
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies urges the United Nations to pressure the Egyptian government to put an end to its acts of violence and to comply with its international obligations to respect Human Rights
In an urgent letter this morning, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) demanded the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Human Rights Council, …
39 Human Rights and Development Organizations Propose Alternative NGO Law
Thirty-nine human rights and development organizations have drafted a new law to regulate NGOs and sent a copy to Prime Minister Essam Sharaf. The proposed law provides for the autonomy …
A Leaf Out of Mubarak’s Book: Arrest of an Activist Who Uncovered the Truth of a Massacre
Press Release We the undersigned, in our capacity as rights organizations, social movements, and political forces, announce our strong condemnation of the detention of the activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, The …
Maspero: state incitement of sectarian violence and policy of extrajudicial killings
The undersigned organizations condemn the unprecedented extra-judicial killings and acts of violence committed by military police and central security forces, on the 9th of October in the Maspero area and …