The undersigned organizations express their full solidarity with the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate, which in a few short hours will convene an emergency meeting of the general assembly. We appreciate the …
Cairo University’s termination of academic Kholoud Saber’s scholarship in Belgium and ordering her to return is a flagrant violation of academic freedom
Cairo University’s decision demonstrates the erosion of university independence and its reliance on dictates of Ministry of Higher Education, which acts as a cover for security intervention in universities The …
14 rights organizations: more than two years in pretrial detention is a flagrant violation of the law
AFTE files complaint with High Judiciary Council protesting renewed detention of Mahmoud Mohammed The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the decision of the 24th circuit of the Giza Felony Court to …
Egypt’s borders have become a mass jail cell for activists and rights advocates
The undersigned organizations condemn the recent arbitrary travel bans issued against several individuals involved in public life, in particular human rights defenders, the latest being rights activist Gamal Eid, the …
22 months in pretrial detention on charges carrying a life sentence: the penalty for a youth initiative to address the tragedy of street children in Egypt
Rights groups: The Belady Foundation case demonstrates that individual and community initiatives face only repression and fabricated charges The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the ongoing pretrial detention of Aya Hegazy, …
Rights organizations and public figures: the case lays the groundwork for the confiscation of the right of academic research and freedom of information and infringes freedom of association and freedom of opinion and expression
The undersigned public figures and rights organizations are gravely concerned by the ongoing detention of writer and researcher Hisham Gaafar, the head of the board of trustees of the Mada …
Rights organizations: closure of the public sphere, and confiscation of liberties continue
The undersigned organizations condemn the vicious security campaign carried out by the Ministry of Interior in the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the 25 January revolution, which entailed extensive …
The United Nations Working Group declares the detention of Yara Sallam as arbitrary and requests compensation
Cairo-Geneva-Paris, January 20, 2016 – A UN expert body, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), declares the detention of human rights defender Yara Sallam, as arbitrary, and requests immediate …
Freedom for Dr. Taher Mokhtar
The undersigned organizations demand the immediate release of Dr. Taher Mokhtar, member of the freedom committee at the Egyptian doctors’ syndicate after security forces raided his residence on Thursday the …