Supreme State Security Prosecution  March 13 hearings:  The Supreme State Security Prosecution renewed the detention of Mohamed Abdel Aal Abou El-Dahab for 15 days, pending investigations of case No. 2094 of 2022…

Prepared by Rahma Samy, a researcher at AFTE’s Monitoring and Documentation Unit Content Methodology Introduction First: Why didn't some publishing houses participate? Second: The muffled voices at the fair Third: The publication…

13 March 2023 To: Attorney General: Hamada El-Sawy From: Egyptian human rights organizations A request for urgent action to release Galal El Behairy after he has gone on a hunger strike and is refraining from taking his heart and…

13 January 2025 The Supreme State Security Prosecution has referred journalist Kareem Ebrahim, a member of the Journalists' Syndicate and a reporter for Al-Bawaba newspaper, to criminal trial before the Criminal Court on charges of joining…

16 March 2023 The undersigned civil society organizations condemn the Public Prosecution’s decision to refer Bissan Kassab, Rana Mamdouh, and Sarah Seif Eldin, three female journalists from independent Egyptian media outlet Mada Masr, to…

The Public Prosecutor’s office:  On March 5, AFTE submitted a request to the Public Prosecutor’s Office on behalf of Omar Hadhoud, the brother of economic researcher Ayman Hadhoud, demanding to reopen an investigation into Hadhoud’s…

The undersigned organizations express their full solidarity with poet Galal El Behairy on the fifth anniversary of his arbitrary arrest and detention solely on the basis of his peaceful expression, an anniversary on which he has announced a…

9 March 2023 The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) condemns the Court of Appeal’s decision to reject Mawaddah al-Adham’s appeal against her six-year prison sentence and 200,000-pound fine, in the case known in local…

22 January 2025 The Criminal Court (First Circuit Terrorism)  renewed poet Galal ElBehairy's detention for 45 days pending the investigation of lawsuit No. 2000 of 2021 (Supreme State Security Prosecution).  ElBehairy was arrested on March…

1 March 2023  Last Wednesday, the Supreme State Security Prosecution decided to release Amr Hussien and Mahmoud Abdel Ati under the guarantee of their place of residence, pending investigations of case No. 1977 of 2022 (Supreme State…