Request for sign-on: HRC45 Joint civil society statement on abortion

Everyone has the right to life-saving interventions during or outside of crises.[ii] And yet, women and girls’ rights to bodily autonomy and safe abortion have been some of the first rights to be conveniently sacrificed under the guise of prioritizing COVID, as if health was a zero-sum game. That includes free, safe and legal abortion and comprehensive abortion and post-abortion care, without which women, girls and gender-non-conforming persons are forced to seek unsafe clandestine abortions or to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, in complete violation of our rights.

Press Release17 Sep 2020

After Menna Abdel Aziz’s release and the prosecution's decision that there are no grounds in bringing a case for the charges against her, EIPR calls on the prosecution to take the same approach in similar cases to protect victims of sexual violence

EIPR hopes that the prosecution’s decision not to proceed with the referral of Menna Abdel Aziz to trial is a precedent that will be generalized to the rest of sexual violence cases, through the prosecution’s use of its inherent right to suspend investigations or counter-reports that the victim of sexual violence may face once they report the incidents of abuse.

Press Release30 Jul 2020

After Referring The Attackers Of Menna Abdel Aziz To Criminal Trial, The Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights Reiterates Its Demand For The Immediate Release Of Menna Abdel Aziz And Dropping All Charges Against Her

EIPR calls upon the Public Prosecution again to use its authority, and to take the decision best suited for the safety of the victim, Menna Abdel Aziz (Aya), to drop all charges against her and release her immediately, so that she can begin recovering from the psychological and physical effects of the attacks that she was subjected to at the hands of the accused.

Press Release1 Jul 2020

The launch of a position paper titled "Despite expected continuity of the pandemic, Covid-19 is missing in government fiscal plans" at the beginning of the new fiscal year 20/21

In the year of the pandemic, as the World Health Organization called it last March, when millions lose their jobs and their basic living, the government chooses to cut spending on food subsidies. Despite the exhaustion of the health system, headed by doctors and nurses in government hospitals, the government chose to complete its neglect of the constitutional minimum spending on health.

Press Release1 Jul 2020

150 days of remand custody for Patrick, three months of postponement and renewal without the presence of Patrick or his legal counsel

Once again the prison administration failed to transfer Patrick Zaki citing a force majeure event. Patrick was scheduled for a detention renewal session on Sunday June 28 that was meant to take place for the first time before a Criminal Court panel from a counter-terrorism circuit, which sits at the Tora Subofficers Training Institute. But once again we saw a repeat of what has become the norm over the last three months, following the April 28 decision by the head of the Cairo Appellate Court to resume detention renewal sessions without the presence of defendants in criminal cases

Press Release28 Jun 2020

Two young men in al-Sharqia sentenced to one-year imprisonment for promoting ideas belonging to Shi'ism

The court did not allow the lawyers to obtain the case file and only allowed them to see it quickly, and the case documents did not include any specific publications published by the defendants that would qualify as promoting Shiite doctrine, while the accusation articles included article 98 (f) of the Penal Code known as “contempt of religions” that punishes "promoting extremist ideas that ridicule divinely-revealed religions."

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