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Five Years of Arbitrary Travel Bans and Asset Freezes against Three EIPR Directors

This week marks five years since travel bans and asset freezes were imposed on three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR): Administrative Director

  • Joint Statement: The Third Trial of Hoda Abdelmonem

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Virtual Freedom: Towards Ending the Cybercrime Law's Repression of Online Freedom of Expression in Egypt

Press Release10 Nov 2025

Punishment by Proxy in Egypt: Families of Exiled Journalists, Activists and Human Rights Defenders Held Hostage by the Authorities

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the Egyptian authorities, which has only intensified in recent months.

News6 Nov 2025

30 Years Since Copenhagen: EIPR Participates in the World Summit for Social Development

Press Release2 Nov 2025

Hoda Abdelmoniem Marks Seven Years Behind Bars Despite Deteriorating Health: An Urgent Call for Her Immediate Release

As of today, Hoda Abdelmoniem, the prominent lawyer and human rights defender, has spent seven full years behind bars since her arrest on 1 November 2018.

Press Release1 Nov 2025

Release 131 still in detention for solidarity with Palestine

Over the course of two years of Israel’s war of aggression and ensuing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and until the Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit

Press Release30 Oct 2025

Release Hamdy El-Za’eem: Five Years of Unlawful Pretrial Detention

The undersigned organizations call for the immediate and unconditional release of photojournalist Hamdy Mokhtar Ali, " Hamdy El-Za’eem", who has been held in pretrial detention for nearly five years pending Case No.

Press Release27 Oct 2025

Beni Mazar Attacks: State Officials' Participation in Imposing 'Customary' Punishments Entrenches Sectarianism

EIPR condemns the state's handling of the sectarian tensions that erupted in the village of Nazlet Gelf in the Beni Mazar district of Minya Governorate on Wednesday, 22 October.

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