Egyptian human rights organizations condemned today the harsh penalty decided by the military court in Hamas city, Syria against the writer “Habib Saleh”, 59 years old, because some of his …
CIHRS Denounces Attack on Independent Press in Egypt
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) expresses its deep concern regarding the ruling issued by al-Warraq Misdemeanor Court yesterday morning against Journalist Ibrahim Eissa, editor-in-chief of ed-Destour and …
The European Parliament Discusses Human Rights and the Escalation of Security Attacks against Pro-Reform Activists in Egypt
The European Parliament’s Human Rights Committee held a hearing session on human rights and European Neighborhood Policy with Egypt and Israel on Monday, 19 June 2006 in Brussels. Moataz El …
Sadistic police men in the streets of Cairo: Minster of Interior is to submit torturers list or his own resignation
Cairo, 27 May 2006 – The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) urge the Egyptian Minister of Interior to announce the names of the sadistic police officers who brutally …
Egypt: Journalists& Reporters Assaulted and Cameras Seized
Urgent statement Cairo- 2:00 pm, 11 May 2006 Downtown Cairo area witnessed today a new crime within the crime series committed by Egypt’s security bodies. State Security forces arrested more …
Arresting Reporters Without Borders Prize Winner – Urgent news
The Egyptian security authorities arrested Alaa Seif and nine others: Karim El-Shai’r, Fadi Iskandar, Nada El-Qassas, Asmaa Ali, Rasha Azab, Mohammad Awwad, Essam El-Sharaf, Sarah AbdulGalil, and Ahmad ABdulGhafar. The …
Egypt: New Crackdown on Pro-Democracy
Urgent StatementCairo- 2:30 pm, 7 May, 2006 A new crime within the series of crimes committed by Egypt’s security bodies has been carried out today in Bab El-Khalq Square, in …
CIHRS condemns the security harassment to Journalists and demonstrators in front of the Judges Club And demands that the series of trials of the reformist judges be stopped and also demands the release of Hussein Abdel Ghani
With intense anxiety the Cairo Institute received the news about the Egyptian Security Forces detaining Hussein Abdel Ghani, President of Al-Jazeera channel in Egypt, with the charges of spreading lies …
NGOs Urge for Strong Human Rights Commitments in EU-Egypt Action Plan
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIRP), in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), organized a joint mission to …
Political Reform in the Egyptian-European Negotiations
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has submitted to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Commission (EC) a memorandum on the priorities of the issues …