With President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently calling for a review of Law 70 of 2017 regulating civic organizations, the undersigned rights organizations emphasize the futility of any attempt to revise …
Egypt: President grants immunity for military commanders in exchange for lifelong hold on power
An Authoritarian Pact: Law on the Treatment of Senior Military CommandersOn November 1st, marking 100 days since the Egyptian Parliament’s adoption of Law 161 of 2018 on the treatment of …
JOINT LETTER: Don’t provide political cover for brutal repression of Egyptian government
65 local and international civil society organizations sent a letter to Ms. Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, to protest the Commission holding its …
Egypt: Wide-scale arrests of rights defenders target Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms
The undersigned independent rights organizations are gravely concerned by wide -scale arrests targeting human rights defenders with the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), an organization supporting victims of …
JOINT LETTER TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AHEAD OF THE OFFICIAL VISIT OF PRESIDENT AL SISI OF EGYPT
Dear Chancellor Merkel, Your upcoming meeting with President Al-Sisi of Egypt provides a crucial opportunity to raise concerns regarding the crackdown on the independent human rights movement in the country, …
Egypt: 12-year old child forcibly disappeared and held in solitary confinement in state’s “fight against terrorism”
Save Abdullah Boumedine The undersigned organizations condemn the unlawful measures taken by the Egyptian authorities against Abdullah Boumedine Nasr al-Din, age 12, of the town of Arish in the Sinai …
Egypt | Banning rights lawyer Khaled Ali from traveling is a punishment for his role in the field of human rights and for obtaining the ruling declaring Egyptian sovereignty over Tiran and Sanafir
The undersigned human rights organizations said they believe that the travel ban issued against human rights lawyer, founder of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) and former …
Death sentence for 20 Egyptians upheld in latest affront to UN calls to abolish capital punishment
The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with the 2013 attack on the Kerdasa police station. Egypt’s …
New Report Details Deteriorating Human Rights Conditions in Egypt
Human Rights First and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) today released a new report detailing the severe crackdown on peaceful dissent and nongovernmental organizations in Egypt under the government of President Abdel …
Statement on U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo’s Decision to Release Suspended Military Aid to Egypt & the Responsibilities of US Civil Society
The undersigned independent Egyptian human rights organizations express our consternation over U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to release $195 million in suspended military aid to Egypt. Pompeo’s predecessor …