The undersigned political parties and civil society organizations condemn and reject the proposed law on civic associations drafted by parliamentary committees, because it effectively eradicates civil society and defers administration of it…

View PDFThe Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) issued a joint report today on the increasing use of travel bans at Egyptian airports by security authorities,…

The government of Egypt needs to temporarily suspend the use of the death penalty, given the recent record of human rights abuses, politicized trials and the ease with which Egyptian courts have been issuing lengthy prison terms and death…

The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) has followed the efforts of Mohamed Hassan Soliman, Lecturer at Ain Shams University, to obtain the University approval to his travel to the University of Denver, USA, in a…

View As PDFResearch By : Maha El Aswad Content Introduction Concept of national security and its relation to Human Rights National Security and the right to information in Egypt: a review of Egyptian context and legislation versus…

Methodology AFTE relies on monitoring by researchers with the media freedom program as well as material circulated on news and other websites and the Journalists Against Torture Observatory. AFTE researchers then confirm and document the…

Two years after President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi took his oath of office, the country has and continues to witness a clear deterioration in the status of civil rights and liberties. It is not only the rights and liberties of individuals that…

Rights groups renew request for release of defendants in the Belady Foundation case and urge compliance with legal standards for pretrial detention The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the ongoing pretrial detention of Aya…

The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the arrest campaign of activists, lawyers and journalists  over the past days and hold police and military forces fully responsible for the safety of protestors on April 25, the day of planned…