Originally Posted in Al-Ahram weekly By: Bahieddin Hassan Mohamed Morsi has done more than generations of secularists to convince Egyptians that politics and religion shouldn’t mix, writes Bahieddin Hassan President …
Human Rights Council must do more to protect human rights in Palestine, Syria, Egypt
The 23rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council), which concluded on 14 June 2013, began with a special focus on Syria and the deteriorating situation in …
Sentencing “Karam Saber” to five years for charges of defamation of religion is a flagrant violation of freedom of opinion and expression
The undersigned organizations condemn the sentence in absentia by the Beba court of misdemeanor in Beni Eouief (see below) against writer and human rights activist and director of the …
77 international and regional organizations urge the Human Rights Council to stop attempts to undermine UPR
United Nations Human Rights Council: 23rd Session Joint Oral statement Item 6 – General Debate 10 June 2013, UPR Info Thank you Mr. President, Civil society is deeply concerned …
The Cairo Institute at the United Nations: Human Rights Workers Sentenced to Prison while Protestors’ Killers Go Free
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention to the UN Human Rights Council (the Council) today, 7 June 2013, in which it discussed the state …
20 Egyptian organizations in solidarity with the NGO workers sentenced to prison:
Politically motivated case a fatal blow to freedom of expression and association
The undersigned Egyptian rights organizations condemn in the strongest terms the verdict issued on June 4 by the Cairo Criminal Court which convicted 43 staff members of international NGOs in …
In a side event at the United Nations:
President’s draft law violates Egyptian Constitution and international standards
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) held a side event on freedom of association in Egypt this afternoon, 3 June 2013, as part of its activities at the …
The Cairo Institute in an oral intervention to the Human Rights Council:
The president’s proposed associations law newest episode of aggression against Egyptian civil society
Today, 31 May 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention about the freedom of association in Egypt to the United Nations Human Rights Council …
The Muslim Brotherhood lays the foundations for a new police state by exceeding the Mubarak regime’s mechanisms to suppress civil society
The undersigned associations and organizations are deeply concerned by attempts to suppress civil society institutions, especially human rights organizations. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its political arm, the Freedom and …
Freedom of Expression, Association, and Assembly Confiscated by the “Arab Spring” Governments
Today, Monday, 27 May 2013, marks the beginning of the twenty-third session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) in Geneva. The session is scheduled to continue until …