EuroMed Rights welcomes the acquittal of child rights defender Aya Hegazy and her co-defendants on Sunday 16 April and urges the Egyptian authorities to release them as soon as possible. […]
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Prominent journalist and researcher Ismail al-Iskandarani has spent 500 days behind bars without being convicted of any offence. Iskandarani, one of the very few journalists that used to cover human
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Brussels/Copenhagen/Paris/Tunis, 10 April 2017 EuroMed Rights strongly condemns the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Egypt by the terrorist group “Islamic State” at the Coptic churches of Tanta and Alexandria on Sunday
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This Thursday 23 March, Aya Hegazy, a dual US-Egyptian citizen and founder of the Belady Foundation, together with six co-defendants, including her husband Mohammed Hassenein, should have known their fate.
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From 27 February to 24 March 2017, the 34th session of the Human Rights Council of the UN is being held in Geneva. On this occasion, EuroMed Rights, World Organisation
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Different frameworks, Similar shortcomings As part of our campaign on the Istanbul Convention #STOPViolenceAgainstWomen, for International Women’s Day EuroMed Rights wants to bring attention to the situation of violence against
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24 February 2017 Dr Angela Merkel Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Willy-Brandt-Straße 1 10557 Berlin Subject: Your visit to Cairo, 2-3 March 2017, amidst clampdown on human rights
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EuroMed Rights strongly condemns today’s closure of the El Nadeem Center for rehabilitation of torture victims. El Nadeem, the most prominent organisation providing support to victims of torture and violence
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On the occasion of the sixth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution of 25 January 2011, EuroMed Rights launches the report “In Their Own Words – Features of the Struggle of
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Features of the Struggle of Women Human Rights Defenders in Egypt The present report has been compiled by Yara Sallam. Yara conducted personal interviews with several women human rights defenders (WHRDs) between September
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