Yesterday, the investigating judge in the NGO foreign funding case delegated a committee from the Ministry of Social Solidarity to visit the offices of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights …
“Insulting the Ministry of Interior” is One of the Charges that Result in the Imprisonment of Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs) and Activists
On 31 May 2015, El-Raml Appeal Misdemeanor Court issued a verdict to imprison the woman human rights defender (WHRD) and lawyer Mahienour El-Masry as well as two other activists, Youssef …
Rights Groups: Questioning Negad El-Borai demonstrates that freedom of work is granted only to legal professionals and judges who turn a blind eye to torture
The strange charges against judges Assem Abd al-Gabbar and Hisham Raouf conceal an attempt to silence independent voices in the judiciary. The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned by the investigation of …
Arrest of Hassan Mubarak for charges of membership of an illegal group
Within the ongoing security campaign of security forces led by the ministry of Interior with the aim of restricting activities of youth groups and persecuting them to force them to …
Bahey eldin Hassan: Egypt is becoming a republic of fear and is sliding toward extremism, violence, and chaos
Hassan has met with the Tunisian Prime Minister and EU Human Rights and Counterterrorism Officials Bahey eldin Hassan, the director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, gave a …
Six Rights Organizations Meet with a US Congressional Delegation to Discuss the Crisis of Civil Society in Egypt
On Monday, May 4, 2015, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies hosted a meeting of six Egyptian rights organizations with Thomas Hill and Joan Condon, professional staffers with the …
Egyptian Government Clamps Down on Rights Groups, Seeking their Eradication
The undersigned organizations utterly reject and condemn the increasingly aggressive actions taken by the Egyptian government and the investigating bodies against civil society, especially rights groups. We believe the goal …
Radio Horytna Office Raided and Director Detained
The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the ongoing campaign to intimidate and terrorize human rights defenders in Egypt. The recent arrest of Ahmed Samih, the director of Radio Horytna and the …
CIHRS: Hostility to the Right of Peaceful Assembly and Association Fosters Impunity
On 26 March, as part of the World Social Forum in Tunis, the Cairo Institute for Human Right Studies along with Bread for the World, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, …