During the month of November, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 51 defendants in 30 cases. Among them, 4 were issued final verdicts that could not be appealed.
Programs: Criminal Justice
Today, 28 December 2025, marks one year since the arrest of Egyptian–Turkish poet and opposition figure Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Lebanon.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on the Public Prosecution to ensure an urgent and transparent investigation to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of Tarek Ashraf El-Sayed Mahfouz while in custody at Al-Ha
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) calls on Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfiq to intervene immediately to ensure the implementation of the decision issued on 23 December 2025, by the 19th Circuit of South Cairo Criminal Court, or
During the month of October, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 21 defendants in 13 cases. Among them, 3 were issued final verdicts that could not be appealed.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) strongly condemns the ruling by the Benha Child Court sentencing two children to ten years in prison on “terrorism” charges based on their alleged online activity.
As the fourth anniversary of the opening of Badr Prison Complex in the last quarter of 2021 approaches, The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today released a report entitled “Propaganda vs.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) ordered the release of five detainees held in connection with Case No.
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Introduction
In a TV telephone interview in September 2021, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the imminent inauguration of a prison complex in Wadi al-Natrun, to be Egypt’s largest and the first of seven or eight similar complexes. He said its inmates would “serve their sentences humanely and decently ... movement, sustenance, healthcare, social and cultural care, and rehabilitation, in a similar system to that of American prisons” and that “no one will be punished twice.”
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) demands the immediate release of Hisham Mamdouh Ali (35 years old), who has been detained for over 11 years after being "recycled" (rotated) in multiple cases, and Ahmed Sabry Nassef (26 years
