We, the undersigned organizations, are profoundly concerned by the recent and rapid deterioration of conditions inside Egypt’s Badr Rehabilitation and Correctional Center, according to testimonies from detainees’ families.
Files: Prisons and detention facilities
The Third Circuit of the Terrorism Criminal Court renewed the detention of 1,516 defendants in various cases, either by issuing a decision to extend their pretrial detention for 45 days in the absence of their lawyers or by postponing the consi
Today, a coalition of international and Egyptian NGOs has submitted a detailed legal analysis to the UN Committee against Torture concluding that the Egyptian authorities’ use of torture is so widespread and systematic as to amount to a crime against humanity under customary international law.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns in the strongest terms the final verdict issued today, July 18, to three years in prison against its researcher Patrick George Zaki.
(EIPR) issued a report titled “HRDs in front of emergency court: the trial of members of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF)” in which it called for the acquittal of lawyers Hoda Abdel Moneim, Mohamed Abu Huraira, Ezzat Ghoneim, and Mrs. Aisha Al-Shater, members of ECRF, after they were indicted in connection with the Supreme State Security Emergency case no. 1552 of 2018, in which the ruling will be issued next Sunday, March 5, 2023.