The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the referral by the management of the 10th of Ramadan Higher Technological Institute of assistant professor at the mechanical engineering department at the institute’s branch in the 6th of October City Manar Tantawy for investigation on charges of approving leave requ…
We, the undersigned civil society organizations from across the globe, call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Egyptian activist, poet, and political writer Ahmed Douma. The post Ahead of Expected Judgment in Appeal, Civil Society Organizations Globally Call for the Release of Ahmed…
july 9, 2026 We, the undersigned civil society organizations from across the globe, call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Egyptian activist, poet, and political writer Ahmed Douma. On July 16, 2026, the Fifth Settlement Appellate Misdemeanour Court is expected to issue its judgmen…
Allegations of grave violations committed during North Sinai counter-terrorism operations, which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, are the subject of an official communication (AL EGY 1/2026) to the Egyptian government sent by a group of United Nations experts[1] on 15 April 2026. The allegations a…
The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned by the forced eviction measures and practices being undertaken by the Egyptian military against residents of the villages of Al-Kharafin and Al-Muqata'a in North Sinai The post As Third Wave of Forced Eviction Impends, Rights Organizations Urge Halt to Di…
April 8, 2026 We, the undersigned civil society organizations from around the world, call on Egyptian authorities to immediately release prominent activist, poet and political writer Ahmed Douma from pretrial detention and to stop their systematic campaign of judicial harassment against him. On April 6, 2026, many in …
Ahmed Douma has already spent over a decade in prison on politicized charges. In custody, he has been held in prolonged solitary confinement, denied adequate medical care, and subjected to treatment that Amnesty International described as torture. His detention was found to be arbitrary by the UN Working Group on Arbi…
The cases also included human rights lawyer and political activist Mahienour El-Massry, who was interrogated by the SSSP in August 2025 in Case No. 6322 of 2025 on the same charges and was ultimately released on a bail of EGP 50,000 pending the case
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the continued escalation in summoning human rights defenders, journalists, and political figures for investigation before the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP). These repeated summonses, accompanied by vague charges and excessive bail, have become a systematic…
Feb 14, 2026 The signatories consider the summoning of Dr. Aida Seif al-Dawla, a co-founder of the El Nadeem Center, two weeks after the arrest of Ahmed Douma and his release on bail, to be “a new practice in a systematic security policy aimed at hollowing out human rights and political work” The organizations condemn…