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 …
Egypt: CIHRS joins call urging the Biden administration not to disregard human rights conditions on U.S military assistance to Egypt
CIHRS, together with thirteen other civil society organizations, sent a public letter to U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, urging the Biden administration not to invoke …
Egypt: 27 CSOs urge EBRD President to address Egypt’s non-compliance on human rights and democratic governance
CIHRS and 27 civil society organizations are addressing the joint open letter below to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Ms Odile Renaud-Basso, ahead of …
Egypt: 74 NGOs urge Egyptian Authorities to Release Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy
We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been arbitrarily detained since 1 February …
Egypt: Urgent concern over health of imprisoned journalist Solafa Magdy
A few weeks ago the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), together with a group of human rights organizations, signed on to an urgent call to the U.S. State …