The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the referral of its client, lawyer Ibrahim Metwally, 61, coordinator of ‘the Association of Families of the Forcibly Disappeared’, to trial in two of the three cases brought against hi
Files: Prisons and detention facilities
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the blatant violation of the minimum fair trial guarantees to which Ahmed Sabry Nassef has been subjected over the past seven years after the Ministry of Interior failed to implement a
Ihab Masoud Juha, 51 years of age, died two days ago , November 4th 2024, after over five years of unlawful pretrial detention, during which he was subjected to medical negligence that amounts to murder by omission, after the terrorism judicial
The “FreeHoda” campaign and the undersigned organisations condemn the continued arbitrary detention of lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdelmonem, who has been detained for six years.
The undersigned human rights organizations urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately release political activist Mohamed Adel, and to comply with their duty to protect his life and health, now in danger due to the hunger strike he started in
We, the undersigned organizations, are profoundly concerned by the recent and rapid deterioration of conditions inside Egypt’s Badr Rehabilitation and Correctional Center, according to testimonies from detainees’ families.
The Third Circuit of the Terrorism Criminal Court renewed the detention of 1,516 defendants in various cases, either by issuing a decision to extend their pretrial detention for 45 days in the absence of their lawyers or by postponing the consi
2 Oct 2023
Today, a coalition of international and Egyptian NGOs has submitted a detailed legal analysis to the UN Committee against Torture concluding that the Egyptian authorities’ use of torture is so widespread and systematic as to amount to a crime against humanity under customary international law.
