The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) demands the release of Ambassador Mohamed Rifa'a El-Tahtawy (75), who today, Wednesday 8 October, completes two years in detention.
Programs: Criminal Justice
Position Paper
Today, Monday 20 September, the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) decided to release the poet and former political prisoner Ahmed Douma on bail of 50,000 EGP (approximately 1,000 US dollars).
We the undersigned Egyptian and international civil society organizations welcome the decision of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to not sign the draft Criminal Procedure Code into law and instead to send it back to parliament for revision.
During the month of August, Egyptian courts issued death sentences to 39 defendants in 30 cases. Among them, 2 were issued final verdicts that could not be appealed.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) demands the immediate release of Abdallah Mohamed Elsayed, aged 29, and the dropping of all charges against him.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) welcomes the ruling by the Court of Administrative Justice ruling to grant an imprisoned activist Mohamed Adel, former spokesperson for the April 6 Youth Movement,the right to take his postgr
The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned over the severe deterioration in the health of lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdel-Moneim, 66 years old, who has been in pretrial detention since 1st of November 2018. Abd
