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 …
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s workshop on the promotion of human rights in Egypt
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) have come together to organize a workshop entitled “Advancing Human Rights in Egypt: Recent Lessons, …
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 CIHRS report: Opportunities remain for cooperation between civil society and the League of Arab States
On Monday, October 28, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) issued a new thematic report on the mechanisms of cooperation between Arab civil society and the League …
CIHRS at the African Commission:
North African states must adopt legislation to protect the right to access to information
54th Session of the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights Banjul – 27 Oct. 2013 Oral Statement by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies Item 10: Freedom of …
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 …