Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

NGOs Celebrate Release of Prisoner of Conscience Ramy Shaath and Confirm Need to Mobilize against Repression of Peaceful Activism in Egypt

January 08, 2022: Today the undersigned non-governmental organizations celebrate the release of Ramy Shaath, a valiant human rights defender who has inspired many in the Palestinian and Egyptian rights communities with his bravery and courage.

4 Jan 2022

The Fundamental Rights of Baha’is: An Excellent Opportunity to Expand Religious Freedom in Egypt

Originally published on The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

By the end of the current decade, a full century will have passed since the Egyptian state began to reluctantly admit the existence of adherents of the Baha’i Faith in Egypt. Nonetheless, the fundamental rights of Baha’i Egyptians are still stuck at their very same starting point as they were a century ago.

An emergency court acquits Shooting Club hamlet residents of charges of protesting and damaging property

The Muharram Bey Emergency State Security Misdemeanors Court in Alexandria, ruled last Wednesday, December 28th, acquitting the 13 defendants in Emergency State Security Misdemeanor No. 1334 of 2021 - known as the Shooting Club hamlet residents’ case.

2 Jan 2022

Atheists in Egypt: Life on the Edge of Civil Death

*Originally published on The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

Egypt: Unjust verdict must not be ratified against activists Mohamed El-Baqer, Alaa Abdel Fattah, and Mohamed Ibrahim

The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the Emergency State Security Court’s verdict, on 20 December, of five years’ imprisonment for activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and four years in prison for human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer and blogger Mohamed Ibrahim (Oxygen) in case no.

Before an exceptional court that neither listened to the defense nor responded to its requests: The verdict against Alaa, Baqer and Oxygen to be issued tomorrow

Tomorrow, Monday, December 20th, the Emergency State Security Misdemeanors Court will convene to issue its verdict in Case No. 1228/2021 (the Fifth Settlement Emergency State Security Misdemeanor).

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) demands the closure of the case of "spreading Shiism" and condemns the travel ban of Shiite journalist Haider Qandil

Haider Kandil, a journalist and member of the Shiite sect, told the EIPR's researchers that the Cairo airport authorities prevented him from traveling on the morning of Saturday, December 11th, seized his passport and ordered him to go to the National Security headquarters to retrieve it.

After Patrick Zaki is released, EIPR is thankful to all who stood in solidarity with him

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) expresses its gratitude to all who stood in solidarity with it and its researcher, Patrick Zaki, for demanding his freedom during 22 months of imprisonment.

Today, the Emergency State Security Court hears the case of Patrick George Zaki, researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

Today, Tuesday, December 7th, the Emergency State Security Misdemeanors Court, second division, Mansoura, will resume, after lifting a state of emergency last October, the trial sessions of Patrick George Zaki, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.

Human rights organizations demand the release of political activist and writer Ahmed Douma

On December 3, 2021, Ahmed Douma, writer, political activist and one of the most prominent symbols of the January 2011 revolution, enters his eighth year of arbitrary detention, against the background of his political activism and his relentless pursuit of freedom and democracy.