Hundreds of Egyptian protesters march in the working class district of Shubra in Cairo on October 9, 2012 to mark one year since the Maspero Masscare. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/GettyImages) Religious & Ethnic Minorities Egypt The Transformative Politics and Memory of the Maspero Massacre The Maspero Massacre has left an ind…
Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) Continuous violation and absent justice Forced Disappearance A five-year report Stop Enforced Disappearance It is a campaign launched by ECRF on August 30, 2015 in conjunction with the International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearance, with the aim of spreading a…
Contents Executive summary Introduction Report Methodology Legal framework 4-1- The crime of torture and other forms of maltreatment in international law 4-2- Crime of torture and other forms of maltreatment in Egyptian constitution and law Prolonged solitary confinement 5-1- Legal framework of the solitary confinemen…
Hanging Church, Old Cairo, Egypt (Diego Delso, delso.photo, License CC-BY-SA) Media & Press Religious & Ethnic Minorities Egypt Ramy Kamel, Mada Masr, and Seeing Coptic Issues as Civil Liberties in Egypt Kamel himself advocates for other issues in addition to Coptic rights, including urban housing and investment proje…
{:en}Joint Submission by: Egyptian Taskforce for Human Rights Related to: Egypt’s UPR UPR session: 34th session of UPR (13th November 2019) This report presents the collective account of Egyptian Human Rights organizations based within and outside Egypt, regarding the state of human rights in Egypt over the past four …
Security & Conflict Egypt ESW Week in Brief: July 13–19, 2019 Kuwait deported eight men to Egypt, amid public condemnation, over terror-related charges stemming from Muslim Brotherhood links and the assassination of Egyptian Prosecutor-General Hisham Barakat in 2015. #Shater lawyer TIMEP July 19, 2019 July 19, 2019 Su…
Egyptian Minister of Defense Muhammad Ahmed Zaki visits Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to extend Christmas greetings in January 2019 (photo via popetawadros.org) Religious & Ethnic Minorities Egypt The Reality of Church Construction in Egypt Egypt’s 2016 Church Construction Law established what was, on its face, a s…
Security & Conflict Egypt ESW Week in Brief: February 2 – February 8, 2019 #Shater lawyer TIMEP February 8, 2019 February 8, 2019 Summary Four new claimed and unclaimed terror operations in Egypt were reported, including a rare attack reported outside of North Sinai, in Egypt’s New Valley governorate. Three counter-te…
Security & Conflict Egypt ESW Week in Brief: December 4 – December 8, 2018 Three counter-terror operations on December 5, 6, and 8 in Egypt’s Western Desert resulted in the deaths of 15 militants, including two suspected of involvement in the November 2 Minya attack. #Shater lawyer TIMEP December 10, 2018 December 10,…
TIMEP Brief: Sectarian Violence While sectarian violence in Egypt became of more pressing international concern after a series of deadly attacks by Egyptian militants, the issue is longstanding and pervasive. TIMEP November 21, 2018 Summary While sectarian violence in Egypt became of more pressing international concer…