EuroMed Rights unequivocally condemns the asset freeze ruled on Saturday 17 September by the Cairo Criminal Court on prominent human rights organisations and defenders in Egypt: the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and its director Bahey el din Hassan, the Hisham Mubarak law center and its director Mostafa El Hassan, the Center for the Right to Education and its executive director Abdel Hafiz Tayel, as well as human rights defenders Hossam Bahgat and Gamal Eid.
This ruling will lead to the closure of Egypt’s human rights movement — the most credible, independent and one of the few remaining voices critical of the government’s policies
Full statement to come soon.
- Read our Joint Letter to Egyptian President Al-Sisi on our solidarity with lawyers.