Punishing Saad El Din IbrahimA New Ring in the Chain of Opinion Trials Press Release The Egyptian human rights organizations express their deep concern over the ruling rendered recently …
Letter from 18 Rights Group to the Minister of Interior on Mass Deportation of Eriterian Asylum Seekers
Your Excellency, Minister Habib Ibrahim El Adly, We are writing to express our concern about the ongoing mass deportations of Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt back to Eritrea. While we …
“Sawaseya” chief editor discusses problems facing the human rights promotion in Egypt, with a group of Danish students
On April 9, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies received a visit from a Danish delegation, based upon an invitation from the Danish embassy in Cairo, the delegation constituted …
Contempt of Religions should not be used as a pretext to expropriate freedom of opinion and expression
Press Release The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies CIHRS and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights EIPR have jointly made an oral intervention before the United Nations Human Rights …
Why is sectarian violence more frequent nowadays?
The American University in Cairo The School of Humanities and Social Sciences Cordially invites you to a debate on Why sectarian violence is more frequent nowadays. Organized by Mona Makram-EbeidMember of …
What did the Egyptian citizen Abu Halawa do to exclude him from El Horeyah Association ?
“Abu Halawa” is an Egyptian citizen. He is 26 years old. He graduated from college and did not find work in his village: El Horeyah. And so he devoted himself …
EMHRN’s Working Group on Migration and Asylum Public Meeting in Cairo
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) in cooperation with its member organisation in Egypt ,The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), held a public meeting for EMHRN’s Working Group …
Government drags opposition journalists through the courts
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the hounding of opposition journalists by the Egyptian courts, in collusion with members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP). Three journalists on the daily …
Shameful attempt to silence Human Rights Defenders
The decision to close down the Association of Human Rights and Legal Aid (AHRLA) seems to be a retaliation for its significant role in exposing the wave of institutionalized torture …
Four newspaper editors sentenced to a year’s labour for libelling president and ruling party
A Cairo criminal court yesterday sentenced four newspaper editors to a year’s forced labour and the maximum possible fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds (2,600 euros) for libel and “false information …