Transparent investigations and trials and avoiding double standards protect the courts and guarantee accountability The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is extremely concerned about judicial independence …
Proposed unified law for houses of worship Is a revised version of the Hamayouni Decree
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies sent a memo to Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, Deputy Prime Minister Yehya al-Gamal, and Minister of Justice Mohammed Abd al-Aziz al-Gindi asking the …
The tasks, objectives, and structure of the Home Land Security Agency: Important questions still unanswered
Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, participated in a forum yesterday titled “The Home Land Security and Prospects for the Future.” …
Memo to the Cabinet Legislative Committee CIHRS expresses reservations on proposed People’s Assembly law and adopts electoral system of unconditional, closed proportional lists
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) submitted a memo to the Cabinet Legislative Committee summarizing its view of the proposed amendments to the People’s Assembly law (Law 38/1972). …
El-Baradei campaign discusses document on constitutional principles with the Human Rights Forum
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) hosted a meeting yesterday for members of Mohamed El-Baradei’s campaign staff and representatives of six human rights organizations. Participants discussed the document …
In the footsteps of the Tunisian revolution: A Constitution first
The undersigned human rights organizations call on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to engage constructively with demands from revolutionary forces to reconsider the agenda of the transitional …
CIHRS submits memo to Prime Minister, Interior Minister, And Foreign Minister regarding current policies
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies submitted a memo “policies in the transitional period in Egypt from a human rights perspective” to the office of the Prime Minister. The …
CIHRS sends Dr. Essam Sharaf the human rights organizations’ memo that was sent to Ahmed Nazif after the bombing of the Two Saints Church
In light of the sectarian violence that erupted in Imbaba, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies sent a memo signed by 14 member groups of the Forum of Independent …
Sectarian crimes in Imbaba threaten a civil war and a return to organized terrorism. Yes to the rule of law and the natural judge, no to military trials
The undersigned human rights organizations express their profound unease at the rising wave of sectarian violence, which threatens to drag Egypt into Muslim-Christian civil strife, after it has become clear …
Interior Minister meets with director of CIHRS
Interior Minister Gen. Mansour al-Eissawi met with Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), in the minister’s office yesterday afternoon. Deputy Minister …