Press Releases

AFTE condemns the continuation of arbitrary practices against researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, as the Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court refused to allow Santawy's lawyer to review the merits of his sentence of 4 years imprisonment…

On June 15, 2021, the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights jointly filed a petition before the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) on behalf of Ahmed Samir Santawy, a…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) condemns a court decision to sentence TikTok content creators Sherifa Refaat (aka Sherry Hanem) and her daughter Nora Hesham (aka Zomoroda) to five years in prison on charges of…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) calls on Egyptian Public Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy to speedily release journalist Amer Abdel-Moneim, who has been detained in Case No. 1017 of 2020, particularly as his health…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) has filed two lawsuits before the Administrative Judiciary Court against both speakers of the House of Representatives (lower house of parliament) and the Senate (upper house of…

The World Press Freedom Day, marked on 3 May, coincides this year with the peak of the third wave of Covid-19 in Egypt and the start of a nationwide vaccination campaign. Despite the enormous challenges the pandemic has posed around the…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) welcomes the judgment issued by the Administrative Court on 26 April 2021 to revoke the imposition of obligatory donations on the travel of Cairo University teaching staff, as…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) announces that it starts applying the anti-sexual violence policy today “15 April 2021”. This comes after a series of discussions and interviews that an expert in gender issues…

We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been arbitrarily detained since 1 February 2021 on bogus…

The undersigned organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to release Ahmed Samir Santawy, a master's researcher at the Central European University (CEU) in Austria, who has been arbitrarily detained for two months and deprived of…