The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Public Prosecution’s summoning of prominent human rights defender Hossam Bahgat, the founding executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), for …
Egypt: Moratorium on executions is imperative as unjust death sentence upheld in Rabaa Dispersal Case
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We the undersigned 64 organizations from around the world call on the Egyptian authorities, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to take immediate action to end the Egyptian authorities’ wholesale crackdown on independent organizations and peaceful dissent.
Egypt: Human rights organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his immediate release
The undersigned organizations condemn the referral of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master’s student at the Central European University in Austria (CEU), to an urgent trial before the Emergency Supreme …
Egypt: Biden’s Budget Request Continues “Blank Check”
We, the undersigned organizations, write to express strong disappointment that the administration has requested $1.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing for Egypt for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. President Biden campaigned …
Palestine: Egyptian rights organizations demand an end to Israel’s attacks and apartheid
The undersigned human rights organizations assert that the violent incidents in the occupied Palestinian territories (East Jerusalem) and their repercussions on the situation in the Gaza Strip are a logical …
Rights groups condemn Egypt’s crackdown on the family of a detainee after their complaints about his torture and sexual assault
The undersigned human rights organizations strongly reject the move by Egyptian authorities to pursue family members of the detainee Abdul Rahman Gamal Al-Shuweikh after their disclosure and official complaint to …
Egypt: Government must end relentless attempt to “eradicate” independent civil society
The Egyptian government will convene an online panel discussion with United Nations member states on the 4th of May to discuss its national legal framework concerning civil society, including , …
Egypt: Open letter to human rights ambassadors around the world regarding the targeting of LGBTQI+ community and activists
International Community Must Speak Out Against Government Prosecution and Harassment of LGBTQI+ Community and Activists Ahead of the Egyptian Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, 27 Egyptian, regional and …