Advocacy / Egypt
Joint Statement: Egyptian authorities must end arbitrary detentions and forced deportations of Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers
MENA Rights Group joins 25+ civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to immediately stop targeting Sudanese asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants for arbitrary arrest, detention and forced deportations.
Joint statement: 13 years after Mubarak's ouster, unprecedented repression and economic instability in Egypt
Marking 13 years since the ousting of Egyptian autocrat Mubarak, MENA Rights Group joins 18 civil society organisations in calling on Egyptian authorities to release thousands of unjustly detained persons, end the use of enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing and torture, halt attacks against independent media and civil society, and to uphold basic human rights and freedoms.
Bahrain and Egypt’s National Human Rights Institutions raise concerns at the UN
MENA Rights Group welcomes the Sub-Committee on Accreditation's decision to defer the review of Bahrain and Egypt's National Human Rights Institutions, which cited their lack of compliance with the Paris Principles.
Bahrain and Egypt's National Human Rights Institutions failing to protect human rights
Led by MENA Rights Group, 17 civil society organisations urged the Sub-Committee on Accreditation not to grant Bahrain and Egypt's National Human Rights Institutions status "A" given that they fail to comply with the Paris principles.
Egypt: Statement demanding the release of journalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada's father
MENA Rights Group joins 40+ signatories in urging Egyptian authorities to release Gamal Abdelhamid Ziada, the father of human rights defender, journalist and former prisoner of conscience Ahmed Gamal Ziada. Furthermore, we call on authorities to cease their acts of reprisal against families of journalists and human rights defenders.
Egypt: The immediate release of activist Mohamed Adel demanded by human rights organisations
MENA Rights Group joins 27 civil society organisations in calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release political activist Mohamed Adel, to cease the targeting of individuals exercising their right to freedom of expression and to uphold basic human rights and the rule of law.
Egypt: Civil society “foreign funding” case remains unclosed
MENA Rights Group joins 18 civil society organisations in urging Egyptian authorities to close Case 173, which punishes more than 20 human rights defenders through asset freezes and travel bans, and to cease the targeting of independent civil society.
In solidarity with Egyptian fact-checking and independent media platform Matsadaash
MENA Rights Group joins 99+ signatories, including civil society organisations, in condemning the harassment of Egyptian independent media outlets and journalists.
Civil society organisations condemn sentencing of Egyptian academic and researcher Patrick George Zaki
MENA Rights Group joins 40+ civil society organisations in condemning the Egyptian authorities' sentence against academic and researcher Patrick George Zaki for merely exercising his right to freedom of expression.
Egypt: detained academic at risk of death, Salah Soltan should be immediately released and offered treatment
MENA Rights Group joins 50 human rights organisations in calling for the release of Salah Soltan. The Egyptian academic is held in arbitrary detention, and faces serious medical neglect which may lead to his death.