On June 19th, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) obtained a seven-year prison sentence against "A.S.H." on charges of defaming his ex-wife and her sister and blackmailing them using their photos.
Press Releases & News
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) demands that lawyer and former member of parliament Ahmed Abu Baraka, 64, be granted his legal right to request the recusal of judges who are trying him, and that his trial is held before judge
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) filed a complaint calling on Public Prosecutor Mohamed Shawky to launch an urgent investigation into the death of seven detainees at the Omraniya police station within a year and suspension of
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) expresses its deep concern over Egypt’s continued decline in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 20
We, the undersigned organisations, are gravely fearful for the lives of hundreds of prisoners threatened with imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for non-lethal drug-related offences, including scores of Egyptian, Ethiopian and Somali nationals.
New York, June 9, 2025—One hundred sixty global leaders of news and press freedom organizations called on world leaders, governments, and international institutions on Monday to act immediately to ensure journalists from outside Gaza are given im
We, the participants in the Regional Civil Society Seminar held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2–3 February 2025, in light of wars and the tightening restrictions on public freedoms in our countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, were compelle
We, the participants in the Regional Civil Society Seminar held in Istanbul, Turkey on 2–3 February 2025, in light of wars and the tightening restrictions on public freedoms in our countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean, were compelle
- Benefits included in the law are de facto “suspended”, while its provisions deals severe blows to wages and job security
Joint Statement
In a joint statement published today by six human rights and research organisations and lawyers concerned with the right to housing, offered a proposal for reforming the Old Rent Law in the wake of the ruling of the unconstitutionality of fixin
Position paper
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the ongoing abuses faced by human rights lawyer and coordinator of the Association of Families of the Forcibly Disappeared Ibrahim Metwally.
Early May marked the beginning of the trials of defendants referred to the terrorism circuit courts over the past eight months, a development which has thus far underscored the absence of the rule of law in Egypt while reinforcing the public’s
