On 25 August 2020, Bahey Eldin Hassan, a prominent Egyptian human rights defender, and director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) was sentenced in absentia to fifteen
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Punished for his Critical Tweets On 25 August 2020, the Fifth “Terrorism Circuit” of the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Bahey eldin Hassan, a veteran human rights defender, to 15 years
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EuroMed Rights, Committee for Justice, Egyptian Front for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) & World Organisation against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of the Observatory for
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COVID-19 has provided another excuse for the Egyptian regime to expand its powers and crack down on rights, freedoms and rule of law in the country. Meanwhile, Egypt is facing
COVID-19: a new Trojan Horse to step up authoritarianism in Egypt Read More »
Many of us are under lockdown to minimise the risk of contracting COVID-19. This is not the case for human rights defenders in pre-trial detention in Egypt. The authorities’ refusal
Jailed Egyptian human rights defenders in the COVID-19 firing line Read More »
Geneva, 13 March 2020 Human rights organisations regret Egypt’s lack of constructive engagement during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and denounce Egypt’s reprisals against NGOs and human rights defenders who
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EuroMed Rights, together with six other NGOs, sent on February 19, 2020 a joint letter calling for a comprehensive review of the EU’s relations with Egypt to the President of
NGO Joint Letter to the EU on Human Rights in Egypt Read More »
Since 20 September 2019, peaceful protests against rampant corruption have been repressed with an iron fist in Egypt. According to the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, at the time
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With the Egyptian authorities’ crackdown against protesters intensifying in recent days, four Egyptian human rights defenders testified at an event today hosted in the European Parliament by MEP Hannah Neuman.
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Ahead of the next UN Universal Periodic Review of Egypt’s human rights record scheduled for 13 November 2019, 18 NGOs have urged EU Members states to use this occasion to
