On March 6, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) published its 2022-27 Egypt Country Strategy. The undersigned organizations commend the EBRD’s more realistic appraisal of the human rights situation in Egypt …
Egypt: National Security, Public Prosecution, and Abbasiya Mental Health Hospital implicated in suspicious death of economist Ayman Hadhoud
View PostEgypt: Halt execution of 16 men sentenced to death by an Emergency Court
The undersigned human rights organizations call upon the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to halt the execution of 16 people sentenced to death in July 2021, in Case No. …
IMF: Prioritize Social Protection in Egypt Loan Talks
New Rights-Respecting Approach Needed in Any New Agreement The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should ensure that any new loan program with Egypt expands social protection, strengthens judicial independence, and addresses corruption and …
Egypt: Atrocious prison conditions require genuine rather than superficial changes to the law regulating prisons
Egypt’s parliament approved the amendment of several provisions of Law no. 369 of 1956 on the regulation of prisons and it was ratified by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on 20 …
United Nations: Using counter-terrorism legislation to suppress basic freedoms undermines human rights in the Middle East and North Africa
On 10 March 2022, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and 14 local, regional, and international organizations held an online side event in parallel to the 49th session …
Egypt: Execution of seven people following unfair trials further exposes hollowness of state’s claims to new human rights strategy
The signatory human rights organizations condemn the execution of seven people in Egypt on 8 and 10 March 2022, following trials in which the defendants were forcibly disappeared, tortured, and …
Egypt: End arbitrary detention, Free all arbitrarily detained persons
Twelve Egyptian activists have been on hunger strike since early February 2022 in protest of their prolonged pre-trial detention at Tora Prison Complex. Among them, Abdelrahman Tarek (Moka), Ahmed Maher …
Egypt: CIHRS calls for genuine human rights progress at National Council for Human Rights
Mohamed Zaree to the National Council: Dialogue without genuine political will for reform is propaganda intended to mislead local and international communities about human rights progress in Egypt Mohamed Zaree, …