Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

27 Jul 2021

Population Indicators: Who is left behind?

In a data collection setting in Cairo, I asked a nurse if any woman could walk into a healthcare unit to get contraceptives, she nodded affirmatively. A perplexed pause, then I asked her about the requirements; she explained that the husband’s ID is required to open a family file at the local healthcare unit. Then it made sense, the healthcare system does not see unmarried women as contraceptive users. All the awareness messaging uplifting access barriers to contraceptives mean to target married women.

Egypt: On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, First Step to Combating Torture is Accountability

Coinciding with the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the undersigned independent human rights organizations condemn the Egyptian government’s systematic practice of torture against prisoners in the country.

Call for the immediate disclosure of the whereabouts and fate of former parliamentarian, Mustafa Al-Naggar, after 1,000 days of enforced disappearance Joint statement

The Public Prosecution orders Hossam Bahgat’s release and charges him with insulting the election commission, and publishing false news of electoral fraud

Hossam Bahgat, EIPR executive director, appeared today at the Public Prosecutor’s office in Rehab city to be questioned in a new case opened against him (case number 35/2020). After questioning, the prosecution ordered Bahgat’s release without bail pending investigation, after charging him with

Egypt: Moratorium on executions is imperative as unjust death sentence upheld in Rabaa Dispersal Case

The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Court of Cassation’s 14 June verdict upholding the death sentence against twelve leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Case no. 2985 of 2015, known as the Rabaa Dispersal Case.

EIPR Head Hossam Bahgat summoned to Public Prosecutor’s Office over 2020 tweet

Update: Summons of @EIPR executive director Hossam Bahgat to the Public Prosecutor’s Office has now been moved up to Wednesday 16 June

Egypt: Hope Coalition detainees must be immediately released, after nearly two years of wrongful imprisonment

Egypt: President Should Act to Unshackle Freedoms

Urgent Action Needed to Address Serious Concerns Raised by UN Rights Bodies

Egyptian human rights organizations condemn Referring researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy to the Emergency Supreme State Security Court and demand his unconditional release

27 May 2021

Egypt And The Bill Of FGM: More Punishment, Less Data

Since the beginning of 2021, came under spotlight Egypt’s senate and parliament discussions around a bill amending some provisions of the Penal Code toughening penalties for female genital mutilation (FGM). Some of those discussions that infiltrated the media provoked a 90’s nostalgia, in which the majority of members asserted the need for more punitive reactions to a never-dying practice while debating the vitality of the cutting and the cultural and religious reasoning maintaining this harmful practice.