The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Emergency State Security Court’s verdict, on 20 December, of five years’ imprisonment for activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and four years in prison for …
Egypt: UNDP and Human Rights Groups to Discuss Whitewashing of Human Rights Violations in Development Reporting
View PostEgypt: Freedom now for Ahmed Douma, political activist and writer, demanded by human rights organizations
On 3 December 2021, Ahmed Douma, a writer and political activist who was one of the most prominent symbols and leaders of the January 2011 revolution, enters his eighth year …
Egypt: New amendments ratified by president entrench permanent state of emergency
View PostHuman Rights Concerns Following the US-Egypt Strategic Dialogue
Secretary of State Antony Blinken 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 cc: Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Yael Lempert Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human …
Egypt: End Harassment of Rights Defender
Verdict on Hossam Bahgat Speech Charges Due November 29 (Beirut) – Egyptian authorities should cease the harassment and persecution of prominent human rights defender and journalist, Hossam Bahgat, who faces abusive charges …
Egypt: UNDP Report Whitewashes Human Rights Violations
(New York, November 22, 2021) — The United Nations Development Program’s September 2021 Egypt Human Development Report includes false and misleading claims, Amnesty International, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies …
Egypt: Rights groups condemn exceptional sentence given to Elelaimy, Moanes, Fouad, and others and urge president not to ratify it
View PostEgypt: US Advocate’s Father Held Incommunicado
(Beirut, November 15, 2021) – Egyptian authorities have held Salah Soltan in incommunicado detention since June 2020, in conditions that amount to enforced disappearance and may amount to torture or other ill-treatment, in likely retaliation for his son’s human rights activism, 15 human rights groups said today.