{"id":36719,"date":"2024-02-26T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/?p=36719"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T11:39:58","slug":"egypt-human-rights-group-and-its-director-threatened-and-smeared-reprisals-follow-reports-on-gaza-border-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/en\/advocacy-en\/joint-statements-en\/2024\/02\/26\/36719-afteegypt.html","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Human Rights Group and its Director Threatened and\u00a0 Smeared\u00a0 &#8230; Reprisals Follow Reports on Gaza Border Activity\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Egyptian authorities and affiliated groups have responded to recent reporting by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, an Egyptian human rights group with a focus on Egypt\u2019s militarized North Sinai, with a smear campaign and threats against the group and its director, Ahmed Salem, 18 civil society organizations denounced today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since mid-February 2024, several government and pro-government figures and entities have engaged in an aggressive smear campaign against the Sinai Foundation and Salem on television,\u00a0 in newspapers, and social media. Salem, a United Kingdom-based Egyptian human rights activist, said that, through intermediaries close to Egyptian authorities, he received threats that he \u201cwould be brought back to Egypt\u201d if he did not drop his work. One of these threats, through a government-appointed Sinai local clan leader, warned that Salem \u201cis not far from reach even abroad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Egyptian authorities should immediately end the threats against the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights and its director Ahmed Salem,\u201d said Seth Binder, [Advocacy Director, Middle East Democracy Center]. \u201cThe Egyptian authorities should ensure the safety of his family in Egypt, and end their smear campaigns and the relentless, years-long crackdown on human rights groups and independent organizations.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 14, 2024, the Sinai Foundation <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sinaifhr\/status\/1757818082825851371\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">issued a report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> based on witness <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sinaifhr\/status\/1757879298940149921\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">accounts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, photographs and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sinaifhr\/status\/1758211104252035404\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">videos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the Egyptian authorities\u2019 hurried construction of a fortified zone on the border with Gaza and Israel in Egypt\u2019s North Sinai which it reported was \u201cfor the purpose of receiving refugees from Gaza in case of a collective displacement\u201d as a result of the ongoing armed conflict in Gaza. The report has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/00pmiyqrNS\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">widely covered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by major international <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-gaza-egypt-wall-07a40fddeaf9dbc82c2a33e1f1614419\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news agencies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/16\/egypt-building-walled-enclosure-in-sinai-for-rafah-refugees-videos-suggest\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">newspapers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salem said that, since February 15, 2024, according to two sources in North Sinai, the Egyptian military has increased patrols and checkpoints in the area, stopping residents and construction workers, and looking into the contents of their mobile phones in an attempt to intimidate locals and\u00a0 prevent reporting about the construction work of the fortified zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 17, 2024, a prominent pro-government television anchor and a member of the government\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/afteegypt.org\/en\/legislations-en\/legislative-analysis-en\/2019\/04\/22\/17432-afteegypt.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme Media Regulatory Council,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which plays a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cihrs.org\/egypt-authorities-must-stop-targeting-independent-news-website-mada-masr\/?lang=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">leading role in censorship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the government\u2019s crackdown on independent reporting, described Salem on the pro-government TEN television as an agent linked to terrorist groups and the Israeli Mossad among other allegations presented without evidence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The official X (formerly Twitter) account of the Sinai Tribal Union, the main pro-army militia group in Egypt\u2019s North Sinai, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SinaiTribes\/status\/1758283650431623173\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">described<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on February 16, the Sinai Foundation, without naming it, and independent reports, as efforts by conspirators to \u201cspread poison against the Egyptian State.\u201d Several pro-<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/664459670720169\/?multi_permalinks=1804234286742696&amp;hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">government pages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on X and Facebook published photographs of Salem with similar allegations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Satellite images of the border area captured between the 5th and the 19th of February and analysed by Amnesty International\u2019s Evidence Lab show the clearing of land and construction of a new wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the Egyptian government has launched a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFpCAb0kQ-8\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">public relations exercise <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to deny the news about building camps for Palestinians in Sinai. On February 16, 2024,Egypt\u2019s State Information Service <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sis.gov.eg\/Story\/271090\/%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A1?lang=ar\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">denied in an official statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the government was preparing to receive Palestinians in Sinai and said that such reports \u201cgive a wrong impression, falsely propagated by some, that Egypt is participating in the crime of (forced) deportation that some parties in Israel have been advocating for.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For over a decade, the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has used media <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2017\/05\/18\/civil-society-under-assault-repression-and-responses-in-russia-egypt-and-ethiopia-pub-69953\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">smear campaigns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to intimidate human rights activists and discredit their work as part of a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/tag\/egypt-crackdown-civil-society\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">multifaceted campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to obliterate Egypt\u2019s once vibrant civic space. Those campaigns have often been led by television anchors who are close to government and security circles or hold official positions, and have included aggressive forms of disinformation and statements that in some cases include <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontlinedefenders.org\/en\/case\/smear-campaign-incites-violence-against-human-rights-defenders-egypt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">incitement to violence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/05\/30\/egypt-threats-human-rights-watch-staff\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threats of harm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such campaigns have frequently involved <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thefreedomi.org\/reports\/in-the-shadows-of-authoritarianism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">transnational repression<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/euromedrights.org\/publication\/death-threats-against-cihrs-director-bahey-el-din-hassan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">targeting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> human rights defenders based outside Egypt, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/02\/19\/egypt-escalating-reprisals-arrests-critics-families\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including by<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 harassment, arbitrary\u00a0 arrests, prolonged detentions and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/?p=20169\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prosecutions of family members<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of those living in exile. Despite living in the United Kingdom with his wife and children, Salem expressed fear that the authorities could target his family members in Egypt. The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryLawlorhrds\/status\/1760659936806121669\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on February 22 that she \u201curge(s) the Egyptian government to ensure his (Salem) &amp; his family\u2019s safety.\u201d The Egyptian government should heed this call and prevent any retaliation against Salem\u2019s family members, the organizations said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sinai Foundation has been one of the main independent, credible sources of information about developments in North Sinai, where the Egyptian government forces, mainly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2019\/05\/28\/if-you-are-afraid-your-lives-leave-sinai\/egyptian-security-forces-and-isis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the military, have battled<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> armed militants of Wilayat Sina\u2019 (Sinai Province), an armed group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014. Both the military and ISIS militants <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/05\/28\/egypt-serious-abuses-war-crimes-north-sinai\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have committed serious abuses,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> some of which amount to war crimes according to Human Rights Watch, but the armed clashes remained largely hidden due to Egyptian military restrictions on reporting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the pretext of battling this armed group, Egyptian security forces <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2015\/09\/22\/look-another-homeland\/forced-evictions-egypts-rafah\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have displaced tens of thousands<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of North Sinai residents and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/04\/23\/egypt-looming-humanitarian-crisis-sinai\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">imposed restrictions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the movement of people and goods, which have brought commercial and economic activity, for several years, to a near halt. According to Human Rights Watch\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2019\/05\/28\/if-you-are-afraid-your-lives-leave-sinai\/egyptian-security-forces-and-isis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, thousands of North Sinai residents have been subjected to mass arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, abduction, torture, and extrajudicial killings. Since then, North Sinai has turned into a closed military zone under a tight government media siege to prevent the flow of information and curtail access to journalists and independent observers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though the military has apparently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sinaifhr.org\/show\/155\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">been able to largely eradicate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wilayt Sina\u2019, and its attacks have almost ceased since 2022, the region effectively remains a closed military zone where independent reporting has been severely restricted. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/03\/17\/egypt-massive-sinai-demolitions-likely-war-crimes\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Massive home demolitions, farmland destruction and forced evictions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the military in border and non-border areas have been among the main grievances of the local population. The fortified zone currently being built by the Egyptian government includes some of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2015\/09\/22\/look-another-homeland\/forced-evictions-egypts-rafah\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">areas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where the local population had been forcibly evicted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Egyptian authorities should immediately halt reprisals against critics living abroad, and end its zero-tolerance policy of independent reporting, which is effectively criminalizing freedom of association and expression and human rights work. The Egyptian authorities should also immediately allow independent journalists and independent civil society to work freely in Sinai, and report on the grievances of its residents following a decade of military operations hidden from public scrutiny as well as any impact of cross-border developments on the ongoing armed conflict in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cInstead of intensifying its chokehold on reporting in Sinai, the government should ensure that the human rights abuses committed during a decade of military operations there are independently investigated, including those bravely documented by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights,\u201d Adam Coogle, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Signatories:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amnesty International<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Committee for Justice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DIGNITY &#8211; Danish Institute Against Torture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Egyptian Human Rights Forum (EHRF)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EgyptWide for Human Rights<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Nadeem Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EuroMed Rights<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FairSquare<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Rights Watch<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Commission of Jurists<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Service for Human Rights<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Middle East Democracy Center (MEDC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian authorities and affiliated groups have responded to recent reporting by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, an Egyptian human rights group with a focus on Egypt\u2019s militarized North Sinai, with a smear campaign and threats against the group and its director, Ahmed Salem, 18 civil society organizations denounced today. &nbsp; Since mid-February 2024, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joint-statements-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Egypt: Human Rights Group and its Director Threatened and\u00a0 Smeared\u00a0 ... 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