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.
Programs: Civil Liberties
A whole year has passed since the beginning of the Israeli aggression that has assumed genocidal proportions against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, an aggression that has spread to the West Bank and, more recently, Lebanon. More than 42,000 people have died and 10,000 are missing. Meanwhile, no more than a five-hour drive from the Gaza border, Cairo and other cities in Egypt have been a site of suppression of any attempt by Egyptians to show solidarity with the Palestinian and the Lebanese people trapped under incessant Israeli bombardment.
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 Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls for the immediate release of worker Hisham al-Banna, who was excluded from the release order issued in favour of the Samanoud Weaving and Textile workers.
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
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemned a three-year prison sentence issued by a military court on 28 July against conscript Youssef Saad Haneen for "committing behaviour that is harmful to the order, rules and requirements
EIPR condemns issuing prison sentence against Ahmed Tantawi's campaign manager, Mohamed Abu al-Diyar
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the Matareya Misdemeanor Court's decision to uphold the prison sentence issued against lawyer Mohamed Abu al-Diyar, the campaign manager of former presidential hopeful Ahmed Tantawi.