Press Releases

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) condemns the recent decisions by the artistic unions to cancel and suspend the memberships of its members for political and moral reasons. AFTE considers such practices a…

By: Sara Ramadan, a researcher at Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression Edited by: Mohamed Abd-Alsalam, head of research department Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression condemns The Civil Defense suspension of the…

NGOs call for full repeal of Egypt’s “cybercrime” law and block of dangerous law  regulating media. We, the undersigned,call for the immediate repeal of the Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes Law (“The Cybercrime Law”), as well as…

The Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression strongly condemns the ruling by the disciplinary court of the State Council to dismiss director in the Egyptian television, Ali Abu-Hemila. The ruling claimed that Abu-Hemila went out of…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) and Access Now condemn the Egyptian Parliament’s approval of the Law on Combating Cybercrimes (“Cybercrime Law”), which provides new authority for online surveillance, blocking of…

The Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) has followed with great concern the attack by the Egyptian authorities on the press, on the background of the coverage of the presidential elections of 2018. On April 5th 2018,…

The undersigned organizations strongly condemn Cairo University intransigence in renewing the 2018-2019 sabbatical of the assistant professor at Faculty of Arts at Cairo University, Kholoud Saber and ceasing the payment of her due salary…

The organizations signed below condemn the death sentence execution that took place on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, against the Egyptian citizen Tayseer Odeh Sulaiman, who was convicted in a flawed trial and inconsistent with the legal…

Human rights organizations condemn the crackdown on individuals based on their perceived sexual orientation and gender identity It criticizes the state’s disregard for the Constitution and the violation of the rights of individuals to…

October 10, 2017 On the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty, eight Egyptian rights groups demanded that the Egyptian adhere to the safeguards guaranteeing the protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty and sign and…