Press Releases & News
The undersigned organizations condemn the decision issued by the Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) on 8 September refusing to grant a license to the Fakartany website.
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 Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls for the immediate release of Ehab Masoud Goha, 51, who has been in pretrial detention for five years in connection with Case No. 1358 of 2019.
For the past four years, Cairo’s historic cemeteries have faced systematic waves of destruction, carried out in successive stages.
During the month of August, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 17 defendants in 14 cases. Additionally, 36 defendants' papers were referred to the Grand Mufti in 15 other cases.
The Criminal Appeals Circuit looked into appeal No.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the unlawful detention of six employees who were dismissed after being nonconsensually tested positive for drugs.
The Fifth Circuit of the West Alexandria Court decided to postpone the consideration of a lawsuit filed by 13 workers at Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Co (ALCN) demanding the dissolution of their union committee.
Update on October 10th: The Qasr al-Nile Prosecution released the four Egyptians on bail of EGP 5,000 each, with one of the participants in the demonstration having been presented to forensic medicine, as she was assaulted during her arrest.
As the world marks the Teachers' Day today, there is an intense debate in Egypt concerning the lack of education infrastructure and the shortage of teachers – as an estimate of 470,000 teachers are needed nationwide.
The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned over the continued disappearance of student Ahmed Hassan Mustafa, for more than 2000 days to date.
The Egyptian-British writer and activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, must be released on Sunday 29 September at the end of his five year prison sentence, in accordance with Egyptian law, a coalition of 59 Egyptian and international civil society organ
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the decision of the Terrorism Circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court at the Badr Courts complex to deny a petition to unfreeze the assets of EIPR’s executive director, Hossam Bahgat and o
During the month of July, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 36 defendants in 20 cases. Among them, 2 were issued final verdicts that could not be appealed.
We, the undersigned organisations, are gravely fearful for the lives of hundreds of prisoners threatened with imminent execution in Saudi Arabia on drugs-related charges, including 33 Egyptians on a single wing of Tabuk Prison.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), along with 33 rights and press freedom organizations, condemns the recent arrests and enforced disappe
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
The signatories of this statement condemn the Egyptian security forces' raid on the headquarters of ElMaraya for Culture and Arts, where they searched it and seized some of its contents, including computers, dozens of books and cultural publica
