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

  • Release 131 still in detention for solidarity with Palestine

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

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

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.

Press Release27 Oct 2025

Alexandria Criminal Court Acquits EIPR Client of Murder, Show of Force, and Unauthorised Demonstration Charges

Yesterday, 22 October, the 13th Chamber of the Alexandria Criminal Court acquitted Abdullah Osama Abdel Aal, a client of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), in the case known in the media as the 'Dekheila massacre.' The court th

Press Release27 Oct 2025

Infographic | #Death_Penalties in Egypt during Septemper 2025

During the month of Septemper, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 31 defendants in 23 cases. Additionally, 21 defendants' papers were referred to the Grand Mufti in 14 other cases.

Press Release20 Oct 2025

Security crackdown extends to non-religionists, atheists, and those with dissenting religious views

EIPR condemns the arrest campaign launched by security agencies against non-religionists, atheists, and others with differing religious views.

Press Release19 Oct 2025

To The National Council for Human Rights in Egypt, Save Marwa Arafa’s life

Excellencies,

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