AFTE for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) has been following with great concern the situation of Academic and Student Rights and Freedoms in Egyptian Public Universities and Al-Azhar University over the course of the first semester.…

Egyptian Rights' Organizations Demand Independent investigation into torture allegations Victims speak of atrocious crimes committed by state bodies The undersigned organizations call for an immediate, independent investigation into…

The joint operations room held by the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression and Journalists against Torture Observatory followed on the commemoration of the third anniversary of the 25th of January revolution. The room managed…

The undersigned human rights organizations categorically condemn the acts of violence committed principally by security forces – which fall under the jurisdiction of the Egyptian Interior Ministry – on Saturday, January 25, 2014, the…

In an unprecedented escalation, the Egyptian security forces, in the early hours of the morning, raided the headquarters of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, and arrested Mustafa Eissa, Head of Documentary unit at ECESR,…

For Immediate Release Egypt: No Acknowledgment or Justice for Mass Protester Killings Set Up a Fact-Finding Committee as a First Step (Cairo, December 10, 2013) – Thirteen Egyptian and international human rights organizations…

The undersigned organizations deplore attempts made by the interim government to pass a law on the "regulation of the right to hold public meetings, processions and peaceful demonstrations in public places". They call upon the interim…

The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the verdict by Al Gamaleya court of misdemeanor in case no. 7332/2013 on the 12 November 2013 to sentence 12 student at El Azhar university to 17 years in prison and a bail of 64 thousand LE…

The undersigned rights organizations call upon the Egyptian cabinet to reject the counter-terrorism bill that was recently presented by the Interior Ministry. We warn that adoption of this bill would serve as the legal basis for the…

The undersigned organizations express their deep dismay with the proposed law on the regulation of the right to public meetings, processions, and peaceful demonstrations in public spaces, known in the media as the protest law. The bill…