Human Rights Defenders and activists at risk

Human Rights behind bars in Egypt.

The Activists

Sentenced

Sentenced

Mohamed Adel

Mohamed Adel is a political activist and the co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement. He also took part in

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Sentenced

Hoda Abdel Moneim

Hoda Abdel Moneim is a human rights lawyer who worked on documenting human rights abuses, including incidents of enforced disappearance. She formerly served on

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Sentenced

Mohamed Oxygen

Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan (known as Mohamed Oxygen) is an Egyptian blogger and employee in a publishing house who, in addition

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Sentenced

Ezzat Ghoneim

Ezzat Ghoneim is a human rights lawyer and director of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, a human rights

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In Pre-Trial Detention

In pre-trial detention

Marwa Arafa

Marwa Arafa is a freelance translator and used to provide humanitarian support for families who lost their breadwinners to arbitrary

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In pre-trial detention

Sherif Al Rouby

Sherif Al Rouby is a political activist who was involved in the April 6 Youth Movement. He was arrested for

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In pre-trial detention

Ahmed Tohamy

Pr Ahmed Tohamy Abdel Hay has been an assistant professor of political science at the Faculty of Economic Studies and

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In pre-trial detention

Ahmed Amasha

Dr Ahmed Shawky Amasha is a veterinarian, environmental and human rights defender, a member of the Kefaya opposition group, and

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Case 173/2011 (Foreign Funding Case)

Case 173/2011

Khaled Ali

Khaled Ali is a human rights lawyer. He was head of the Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR),

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Case 173/2011

Mostafa el Hassan

Mostafa el Hassan is a lawyer and head of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, a Cairo-based legal organisation promoting human

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Case 173/2011

Magdy Abdel Hamid

Dr. Magdy Abdel Hamid has worked as a consultant on political development policies, civil society and human rights policies and

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Case 173/2011

Suzanne Fayyad

Dr Suzanne Fayyad, co-founder of Al Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, was banned from

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Case 173/2011

Hossam Bahgat

Hossam Bahgat is an Egyptian human rights defender and investigative journalist. He is the founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and

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Case 173/2011

Hossam Al-Din Ali

Hossam Al-Din Ali is the president of the Egyptian Democratic Institute, which works on human rights, political participation and democracy.

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Case 173/2011

Nasser Amin

Nasser Amin is the director of the Arab Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession in

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Case 173/2011

Abdel Hafez Tayel

Abdel Hafez Tayel is the founder of the Egyptian Center for the Right to Education, an organisation promoting human rights education

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Case 173/2011

Ahmed Ragheb

Ahmed Ragheb is a lawyer and founder of the National Community for Human Rights and Law (NCHRL). He is also

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Case 173/2011

Mohamed Zaree

Mohamed Zaree has been the Egypt Office Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) since 2014. He

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Case 173/2011

Gamal Eid

Gamal Eid is a prominent human rights defender and executive director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI). Mr Eid

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Case 173/2011

Malek Adly

Malek Adly is a prominent human rights lawyer and the director of Lawyers Network at the Egyptian Centre for Economic

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Case 173/2011

Azza Soliman

Azza Soliman is a prominent lawyer and the founder of the Center for Women’s Legal Assistance (CEWLA). She is currently

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Under Restrictions

Under restrictions

Omar Hazek

Omar Hazek is a human rights defender, a renowned poet from Alexandria and an honorary member of the Austrian chapter

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Released

Released

Ahmed Douma

Ahmed Douma is a prominent political activist in Egypt and was one of the founders of both the Kefaya and

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Released, Under Restrictions

Released, under restrictions

Mohamed el-Baqer

Mohamed el-Baqer is a human rights lawyer and director of Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms. On 29 September 2019,

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Released, under restrictions

Hisham Gaafar

Hisham Gaafar is the director of the Mada Foundation for Media Development and a member of the Journalists’ Syndicate. He

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Messages of solidarity with imprisoned human rights defenders

As part of the “Free Civic Space campaign” ahead of COP27 in November 2022, EuroMed Rights’ members called for the release of human rights defenders Alaa Abdel Fattah, Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan (Oxygen) and Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy.

Samar El Hussieny (EuroMed Rights’ member) and Giorgio Caracciolo (EuroMed Rights’ Executive Committee member) deliver a message of solidarity: