On the evening of Wednesday 24 November 2010, at around 8:00 pm more than 30 lawyers went to the South Giza regional office of the public prosecutor to attend the questioning of those accused in the Omrania police complaint n. 17262/2010…

Chaired by Judge Hamdi Yasin Okasha the administrative court today in case no 1430/65 ruled that implementation of National Communication Agency decree imposing restrictions on collective mobile text messages should be stopped. The…

Central military court sentences Ahmed Hassan Bassiouni to 6 months and a fine of LE 500 in prison accusing him of exposing military secrets through his page on facebook

Introduction On the 27th of November the Association for freedom of thought and expression (AFTE) won a case in front of the Cairo administrative court ordering the cancellation of the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA)…

Yesterday AFTE intervened in lawsuit no. 8931/65 filed by some lawyers in front of the administrative court against the minister of mass media and others demanding a stop and cancellation of the decree permitting the broadcasting of the…

AFTE condemns violations by artistic works intelligence against Mohamed Hassan Ahmed Ghoneim, owner of El Kalima bookshop, which began since 2001 and continues until today, taking several forms, the most recent of which is the pending…

Yesterday , Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression ( AFTE ) obtained three court sentences from the administrative court in Cairo to cancel the implementation of the decision by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Ain Shams…

Thirteen Egyptian human rights organizations expressed their distress today about the Egyptian government’s continuing dismissal of reports confirming the detention, torture and rape of hundreds of African hostages in Sinai by human…

The undersigned human rights NGOs hereby express full solidarity with prominent lawyer and human rights defender Radeef Mostafa, Head of the Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria- al-Rased - in light of the tremendous pressures…

Reporters Without Borders, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) sent a joint letter to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on 24 December asking him to…