The undersigned organizations demand the immediate release of Dr. Taher Mokhtar, member of the freedom committee at the Egyptian doctors' syndicate after security forces raided his residence on Thursday the 14th of January and arrested…

The undersigned express their apprehension at broadcasting a program on Monday 14 Dec. 2015 by Sada el-Balad satellite channel presented by the reporter Ahmad Moussa. In this episode, Moussa broadcast video spots from the private life of…

What happened? In late October, social media users in Egypt circulated a video recordingof a girl being physically assaulted in a shopping centre in Cairo. The video in question shows the attacker violently hitting the girl, whose name has…

By Ru'aa Ghareeb "During times of emergency, crisis and war, it will always be natural that the ruling powers resort to actions which they consider essential at the time in order to respond to the threat posed by the crisis. In the majority…

Mr. President, ARTICLE 19 and the Association for Free Thought and Expression (AFTE) note Egypt’s engagement with the UPR process during its recent second Review. However, this expressed commitment to human rights is in stark contrast to…

" Since February 9, 2015 a group of at least 30 Syrian, Palestinian-Syrian and Somali refugees detained at Karmooz police station in Alexandria - Egypt, began an open hunger strike to protest against their arbitrary detention. The refugees…

The 9th of March marks the anniversary of the Egyptian University Autonomy Day; however, there is still considerable debate regarding the extent to which academic freedom and university autonomy standards are being upheld in Egyptian…

The undersigned organizations condemn the passing of Law 8/2015 regulating designated terrorist and terrorism lists, issued by President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in his capacity as head of the executive and legislative authorities. The law…

Joint press statement The undersigned organizations are extremely disturbed by the verdict issued on Monday by the South Cairo Felony Court in the Shura Council case. The court sentenced Alaa Abd al-Fattah and Ahmed Abd al-Rahman to five…