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The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on Public Prosecutor Mohamed Shawky and Minister of Justice Adnan al-Fangary to use their powers under Articles 64 and 65 of the Criminal Procedures Law to appoint an independent judge to
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on Public Prosecutor Mohamed Shawky to release both M.M. and A.M.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on Public Prosecutor Mohamed Shawky and Interior Minister Major General Mahmoud Tawfik to swiftly look into three complaints filed by Dr Abdel Khaleq Farouk's wife regarding the health re
His Excellency Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
President of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Office of the President
Al Ittihadiya Palace
Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt
March 4, 2025
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on Public Prosecutor Mohamed Shawky to urgently launch an investigation into the illegal detention of student Hussein Ragab Hussein El-Sharqawi, for more than 180 days, and his enforced d
On Feb 9th, The Court of Cassation accepted appeal No.
The undersigned organizations express deep concern over the systematic and widespread use of torture, other ill-treatment, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, unfair trials, and appalling detention conditions in Egypt.
As the Gaza ceasefire comes into effect today, 19 January 2025, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) renews its call for all the relevant authorities, primarily the Prosecutor General Mohamed Shawky, to release all those held in p
The Ninth Circuit of the Criminal Court of Appeal in Alexandria, ruled on the appeal submitted by three residents of Sidi Barrani in Matrouh Governorate against their prison sentences. In Case No.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on Public Prosecutor Mohamed Shawky to conduct an immediate inspection of the 10th of Ramadan prison 6, speak to the detainees and prisoners in the facility and investigate their complain
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) holds Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfik fully responsible for the health and safety of political prisoner Mohamed Adel, the former spokesman of the 6 April Movement, who has been cut off from th
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) reiterates its condemnation of the punitive prosecution of lawyer Hoda Abdel Moneim (65), who was referred by the Supreme State Security Prosecution on trial in connection with Case No.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the Dikirnis Misdemeanor Court of Appeal’s decision to renew the detention of five citizens, including two children, for 15 days on charges of “inciting a gathering aimed at attacking
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) denounced the Supreme State Security Prosecution's decision to release 88 defendants in 16 cases open between 2018 and 2022, while continuing to detain them after recycling them into other open
On Tuesday, Dec 10th, the Ninth Circuit of the Criminal Court of Appeal in Alexandria looked into an appeal submitted by three residents of the Sidi Barrani town in Marsa Matrouh Governorate, who were convicted in the "Sidi Barrani incident".
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the punitive prosecution of cassation lawyer, and former member of the National Council for Human Rights Hoda Abdel Moneim, 65, who was referred to trial by the State Security Prosecut
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) holds Public Prosecutor Mohamed Shawky and Minister of Interior Mahmoud Tawfik fully responsible for the health and safety of human rights lawyer Ibrahim Metwally, who is currently detained at
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
