As the fourth anniversary of the opening of Badr Prison Complex in the last quarter of 2021 approaches, The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today released a report entitled “Propaganda vs.
Files: Criminal Procedure
15 Dec 2025
Introduction
In a TV telephone interview in September 2021, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced the imminent inauguration of a prison complex in Wadi al-Natrun, to be Egypt’s largest and the first of seven or eight similar complexes. He said its inmates would “serve their sentences humanely and decently ... movement, sustenance, healthcare, social and cultural care, and rehabilitation, in a similar system to that of American prisons” and that “no one will be punished twice.”
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the referral of 64 defendants, divided between two Supreme State Security Docket cases, to trial based on their efforts to support Palestinian rights.
Yesterday, 22 October, the 13th Chamber of the Alexandria Criminal Court acquitted Abdullah Osama Abdel Aal, a client of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), in the case known in the media as the 'Dekheila massacre.' The court th
Since the House of Representatives began deliberating over the new Draft Criminal Procedure Law, we resolved to participate in this historic national undertaking.
Position Paper
We the undersigned Egyptian and international civil society organizations welcome the decision of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to not sign the draft Criminal Procedure Code into law and instead to send it back to parliament for revision.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered the release of Karim Ennarah, Research Director at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), after nearly twelve hours in detention following his arrest in the North Coast on Tuesday, Au
Position paper
