The Egyptian government must immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a prominent Egyptian human rights organisation, solely for their legit
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On Sunday, 10 November, the State Security Prosecution in the Fifth Settlement in Cairo questioned poet and former political prisoner Ahmed Douma for five hours.
The undersigned organizations condemn the decision issued by the Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) on 8 September refusing to grant a license to the Fakartany website.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemned a three-year prison sentence issued by a military court on 28 July against conscript Youssef Saad Haneen for "committing behaviour that is harmful to the order, rules and requirements
On Sunday, 25 February, the Court of Appeal (Economic Felonies - Circuit B) accepted - in form - Appeal No.
The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, as confirmed by the mid-term report submitted by the Egyptian Taskforce for Human Rights* to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism at the United Nations, titled ‘A Crisis by Design: The Systematic Nature of Human Rights Violations in Egypt’.