Advocacy / Egypt
Civil society, UN Special Rapporteur alarmed about transnational repression in the MENA region
During an event at the UN Headquarters in New York, civil society organisations and the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism raised their concerns regarding the troubling pattern of transnational repression in the MENA region.
Egypt: Lift punitive measures against EIPR staff
MENA Rights Group joins 33 rights groups in their call on the Egyptian government to immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a prominent Egyptian human rights organisation.
#FreeAhmedKamel: Saudi Arabia must not extradite peaceful protester to Egypt, where he would face torture
Following the arrest and detention in Saudi Arabia of Egyptian peaceful protestor Ahmed Kamel, who faces the threat of extradition to Egypt, MENA Rights Group leads a coalition of 12 human rights organisations calling for his immediate release.
Welcoming the downgrade of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights to grade B
MENA Rights Group, the Committee for Justice and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights welcome the recommendation by the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) to downgrade Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), to grade B. The organisations had previously submitted a joint report to the SCA outlining the NCHR's lack of compliance with the Paris Principles.
Six years of arbitrary detention: call for the immediate release of Hoda Abdelmonem and dropping of fabricated charges
MENA Rights Group joins local and international civil society organisations in calling on Egyptian authorities to release Hoda Abdelmonem, a lawyer and human rights defender arbitrarily detained since 2018.
UN Secretary-General’s 2024 report highlights reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA
MENA Rights Group provides a summary of the UNSG's main concerns over reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA region, particularly in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen.
Egypt: Rights groups renew call to downgrade National Council for Human Rights for lack of independence
MENA Rights Group, The Committee for Justice (CFJ), and the Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) renewed their call on the Sub-Committee on Accreditation to downgrade the status of Egypt's National Human Rights Institution for its lack of compliance with the Paris Principles, namely independence.
Egypt: UN experts call on government to stop targeting and retaliating against human rights lawyers
MENA Rights Group joins 27 organisations in condemning the Egyptian government's intimidation and reprisals against lawyers and calling for the immediate release of all lawyers and human rights defenders detained for their work.
Egypt: Immediately and unconditionally release prominent political activist Mohamed Adel
MENA Rights Group joins 80+ organisations in reiterating their call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release prominent political activist Mohamed Adel, who has been arbitrarily detained for 5 years, amid mounting concern over his cruel and inhuman detention conditions and denial of adequate medical care.