In an unprecedented escalation, the Egyptian security forces, in the early hours of the morning, raided the headquarters of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, and arrested Mustafa …
Egypt: No Acknowledgment or Justice for Mass Protester Killings Set Up a Fact-Finding Committee as a First Step
Thirteen Egyptian and international human rights organizations called on the Egyptian authorities today, on international Human Rights Day, to acknowledge, and seriously and thoroughly investigate the killing of up to …
Despite widespread objections, government insists on passing a law “preventing” peaceful assembly, and refers for Presidential ratification
The undersigned organizations deplore attempts made by the interim government to pass a law on the “regulation of the right to hold public meetings, processions and peaceful demonstrations in public …
Sentencing 12 Azhar students to 17 years in prison is a violation of justice and the law
The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the verdict by Al Gamaleya court of misdemeanor in case no. 7332/2013 on the 12 November 2013 to sentence 12 student at El Azhar university …
Egypt to answer to UN body for ongoing social rights crisis
As Egypt’s political crisis continues, its government will be asked to account to the United Nations later this week for what has been done to address the social injustices which …
Rights Organizations Warn that New Counter-Terrorism Law would Re-Establish Foundations of Police State and Intensify Violence and Terrorism
The undersigned rights organizations call upon the Egyptian cabinet to reject the counter-terrorism bill that was recently presented by the Interior Ministry. We warn that adoption of this bill would …
Human Rights Organizations Call on the Attorney General to Stop the Implementation of Imprisonment Penalty On the Nile University Student
The human rights organizations signed this statement today; demanding from the attorney general, Judge Hesham Barakat, to promptly rectify the legal mistakes happened in the trial of the Nile University …
New peaceful assembly bill undermines Egyptians’ right to meet, strike, stage sit-ins, and demonstrate, and legitimizes their murder
The undersigned organizations express their deep dismay with the proposed law on the regulation of the right to public meetings, processions, and peaceful demonstrations in public spaces, known in the …
46 Arabic Human Rights Organizations Demand Dropping All Charges against Karam Saber, and the Unfair Five-Year Sentence On Account of His Story Book “Where is Allah”
The undersigned human rights organizations said, “On Tuesday, 10 September, the writer and human rights activist Karam Saber will appear before the Beba Misdemeanor Court in Beni Suef governorate for …