On 12-13 February 2015, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies co-organized a delegation of human rights and humanitarian organizations working on Palestine in Geneva in preparation for the 28th …
President Obama Urged to Prioritize Human Rights at White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism
Human Rights First and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies today urged President Obama to make clear at the White House’s upcoming Summit on Countering Violent Extremism that advancing …
18 rights groups warn: The Interior Ministry’s crimes are leading to the spread of counter-violence and terrorism in the country
The undersigned organizations hold the Ministry of Interior wholly responsible for the deaths of at least 20 people killed near the Air Defense Stadium the day before yesterday while attempting …
17 Human Rights Organizations Call for the Intervention of the Supreme Judicial Council to Restore Judicial Credibility
The undersigned organizations express their grave concern at the unjust sentence handed down yesterday, February 4, 2015, against 229 defendants, among them the political activist Ahmed Douma and the officer …
Extrajudicial Killing of Demonstrators and Rights Defenders, Witnesses Accused of Disturbing Public Security and Journalists Threatened with Death
The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the extrajudicial killings of peaceful demonstrators carried out by Egyptian security forces on January 24 and 25, 2015. On January 24, 2015, human rights defender …
Board of Trustees of CIHRS’ Regional Office in Tunis Makes Terrorism a Permanent Item on its Meeting Agendas
The board of trustees of the regional office of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Tunis decided to make terrorism and human rights a permanent item on its …
NGOs Call for Charges to be Dropped
On 20 January, a verdict is expected in the trial of Nabeel Rajab, a prominent Bahraini activist and internationally recognized human rights defender. President of the Bahrain Center for Human …
Saudi Arabia Flogs a Citizen and Egypt Imprisons another for ‘Offending Islam’
Bahey El Din Hassan, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) Director, stated that there is no qualitative difference between the position of terrorist groups and that of some Arab …
A Way to Harass Democracy Advocates and a Serious Violation to the Constitution
The undersigned organizations condemn the recent decisions to ban some democracy and human rights advocates from traveling, based on rulings of the investigative judge in the “foreign funding case.” The …
Combating terrorism must include religious reform, which cannot take place in the abscene of comprehensive political reform
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) condemns the terrorist acts that shook the French capital city, Paris last week, and which took the lives of 12 people at …