Civil society organizations have condemned the Public Prosecution’s decision to refer three female journalists from “Mada Masr” to trial on misusing social media. Some 32 civil society organizations, including the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) [ More … ]
As COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh comes to an end, 4 UN rapporteurs have condemned authorities’ “intimidation, harassment, and surveillance of climate activists and civil society.” At the time when the UN climate conference, COP27, held [ More … ]
The ambassadors of the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, U.S., and EU) have called on Egypt to issue a “clear and unanimous condemnation” of Russia’s unprovoked invasion and support Ukraine’s “territorial integrity [ More … ]
The most recent verdict against three prominent activists, including Alaa Abdel Fattah, the icon of the January Revolution (2011) has raised widespread international condemnations, especially that the verdict was issued by an emergency court. Last [ More … ]
Human rights defenders have rushed to condemn the prison sentence against former parliamentarian Ziad El-Elaimy, journalists Hisham Fouad and Hossam Moanis, and three others, The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and seven other Egyptian [ More … ]
Human rights organizations say treatment of Dr. Salah Soltan, father of Mohamed Soltan, may amount to enforced disappearance as well as torture An alliance of leading human rights organizations have voiced serious concern about Egypt’s [ More … ]
Al-Azhar has condemned in a statement “he Zionist entity’s terror and its brutal violations against the people of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem”. “Al-Azhar condemns in the strongest terms the Zionist entity’s terrorism and [ More … ]
The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG) has strongly condemned the Egyptian authorities’ recent arbitrary execution of 9 innocent citizens in the so-called Kerdasa Police Station events. The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG), including politicians from [ More … ]
In August 2015 Egypt enacted a sweeping anti-terror law that broadly defined terrorism as an act that disturbs public order with force. It was seen as part of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s sweeping crackdown on dissent, [ More … ]
The Egyptian National Action Group (ENAG) called on the Egyptian people and the international community to practice pressure on the Sisi regime to change its clumsy policies on addressing the spread of coronavirus in Egypt [ More … ]
The Egyptian National Action Group has condemned what it called “the coup regime’s attempt to plunge the Egyptian army into the ongoing battles in Libya, with the complicity of some army commanders against the general [ More … ]
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has discussed development in northern Syria, Turkey’s operation in closed session at request of some European Union countries. The U.S. and Russia did not approve Thursday a proposal issued [ More … ]
Egypt must ensure no one is subjected to reprisal in relation to Special Procedures missions. Resettlement and compensation of those evicted must comply with international human rights law, says a report by UN Special Rapporteur on the [ More … ]
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ More … ]
The spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday condemned Germany’s decision to toughen its stance on Turkey. In televised remarks, Ibrahim Kalin commented on Berlin’s decision to reset relations with Turkey, including warning its [ More … ]
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