The arrests of Alaa Abdel Fattah and Mohamed al-Baker are the latest in escalating state retaliation against peaceful and lawful opposition and human rights defenders The undersigned rights organizations denounce …
Sisi’s Egypt: International community should pressure Egypt to immediately cease new wave of repression
Paris, Friday 27 September 2019. With demonstrations set to take place today in Egypt, FIDH and CIHRS fear that demonstrators may face intensified repression and be confronted with lethal force …
Egypt: Rights groups call for immediate release of protesters, political party leaders, and presidential candidates
UN must be invited to investigate the situation in Egypt The brutal crackdown by Egyptian state security, which in the last few days was marked by the arrests of nearly …
Open letter to EU Member States Ahead of the Universal Periodic Review of Egypt
Your Excellency, The next Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt’s human rights record is scheduled for 13 November 2019, under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. …
EGYPT: Release Ramy Shaath!
Paris-Cairo-Geneva, August 30, 2019 Mr. Ramy Shaath, political opponent and Coordinator of the BDS movement in Egypt, is arbitrarily detained since July 5. The information was made public last week …
Civil society—not repressive regimes—should discuss inequality at G7
Later this week, France will host the annual G7 summit in Biarritz, with a theme of “fighting inequality” — including gender inequality. FIDH and 73 of its member organisations around …
The UN postpones its regional conference in Egypt on the crime of torture
Human rights organizations: Egypt’s appalling record of torture should disqualify it from hosting conference The signatory Egyptian rights organizations thank all parties, both Egyptian activists and international organizations, for their …
EGYPT: 20 RIGHTS NGOS CALL ON PRESIDENT MACRON TO DENOUNCE EGYPT’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD DURING THE G7 MEETING
It was a striking choice for France to invite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to attend the 24-26 August G7 summit in Biarritz, for which the chosen theme is “the fight …
EGYPT: New crackdown to terrorise civil society
Paris-Geneva, July 23, 2019 – At least 83 persons, including political opposition activists, journalists and human rights defenders, have been arrested in Egypt over terrorist charges since June 25 for …
Egypt: Draft NGO law before parliament is simply rebranded repression, must be rejected
The undersigned organizations reject the draft NGO law currently before the Egyptian parliament. Presented as an alternative to the widely-criticized Law 70 of 2017, the draft NGO is simply a …
Egypt: Aboul-Fotouh’s life in critical danger from prolonged medical neglect in prison
The undersigned organizations warn that prominent opposition politician Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh will soon meet the grim fate of former president Mohamed Morsi, unless there is immediate intervention to put …
Egypt: Latest arrest campaign seeks to eliminate emerging coalition in coming parliamentary elections
The undersigned rights organizations demand the immediate, unconditional release of all persons detained in the dawn security raids of June 25 and 26, in which at least eight were arrested …
Egypt: Red Cross oversight of prisons demanded by rights groups following Morsi's death
Medical neglect in prisons a tool of the Sisi government to kill its opponents, Morsi will not be the last victim The death of former president Mohamed Morsi exposes one …
EGYPT : URGENT APPEAL FOR THE RELEASE OF MALAK AL-KASHIF
We, the undersigned human rights organizations, call on UN Special Rapporteurs, Members of the European Parliament, and representatives in national Parliaments of the European Union to urgently intervene and communicate …
Egypt: Human rights organizations condemn harassment of peaceful opponents to the constitutional amendments
The undersigned organizations resolutely oppose the Egyptian authorities’ targeting of political activists for their peaceful opposition to the constitutional amendments and call for the immediate and unconditional release of those …