EFHR denounces Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) on Wednesday denounced Egyptian authorities’ failure to properly compensate and reintegrate released political prisoners in [ More … ]
Sisi has asked the US to pressure Ethiopia to reach an agreement with Egypt on the Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington. Meanwhile, [ More … ]
Several human rights groups have called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to release the Egyptian-American citizen Sherif Osman, warning that he could face torture and arbitrary detention should he be forcibly returned to Egypt. [ More … ]
Several Nobel laureates for Literature have urged world leaders to raise human rights issues and call for release of the political prisoners in Egypt, as they visit Egypt for the COP27 climate change conference to [ More … ]
About 200 organizations and individuals call on Egyptian authorities to address their human rights crisis ahead of COP27, including lifting restrictions of civic space and release everyone arbitrarily detained in the country. Ahead of the [ More … ]
The Belady human rights organization in Egypt has called for the release of 145 women and 89 children held in prisons and official detention centers in connection with political cases In light of the reactivation [ More … ]
Egypt’s national dialogue is due to begin in a “few weeks”, the dialogue coordinator said, even as demands for the release of political prisoners go unheeded. According to Youm7, the National Dialogue Coordinator Diaa Rashwan [ More … ]
On the 3-year anniversary of their arrest, a global coalition of more than 40 organisations calls on Egyptian authorities to drop all charges and promptly release writer/pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah and human rights lawyer Mohamed El-Baqer. [ More … ]
A Geneva-based watchdog has monitored release of 332 prisoners, but at the same time it has also monitored 950 violations within the arbitrary deprivation of liberty since April when Sisi announced launch of national dialogue. [ More … ]
US lawmakers say the British-Egyptian Alaa Abdel Fattah is “in desperate need of immediate intervention to help secure his freedom. Egypt Human Rights caucus co-chairs Representative Malinowski and Representative Don Beyer have released a letter [ More … ]
Over twenty human rights organizations have called for the immediate and unconditional release of lawyer and rights activist Mohamed El-Baqer These rights groups, includig Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), Egyptian Commission for Rights [ More … ]
DAWN has stated that the detention of Anas El-Beltagy after four acquittals shows abuse of power and collective punishment of the Beltagy Family The Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) rights group has called [ More … ]
Aisha El-Shater, 41, daughter of Muslim Brotherhood senior leader Khairat El-Shater, and her husband lawyer Mohamed Abo Horeira are on trial by the Emergency State Security Court on bogus charges These bogus and trumped up [ More … ]
Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, and Carey Mulligan are among the signatories to a letter to Liz Truss and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The Hollywood stars urged US and UK to help secure [ More … ]
Blogger Abdelrahman “Mocha” Tarek, translator Kholoud Saied, accountant Alaa Essam, former MP Mohamed Mohie Eddin, and Hussein Khamis have been released from the pretrial detention. However, thousands of political prisoners are still suffering behind bars. [ More … ]
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