The Committee for Justice (CFJ) stated that enforced disappearance constitutes a violation of human rights that extends beyond the disappeared individual to impact their family and society at large. The […]
August 30, 2017 On the international day of Enforced Disappearances, Stop Enforced Disappearance campaign published its second annual report since the launch of the campaign in August 2015. This report reflects numbers, data and names of the cases the campaign could document from August 1st, 2016 until mid-August 2017…
The Committee for Justice (CFJ) has documented an escalation in cases of arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance targeting civilians in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, amid complaints regarding the detention of […]
13 civil society organizations call on the Italian government and the Ministry of the Interior to halt the deportation of Mohamed Mahmoud Ebrahim Shahin to Egypt, consistent with Italy’s obligations under international law and with full respect for the principle of non-refoulement.
Based on documented information submitted by the Egyptian Front for Human Rights concerning 12 individuals (out of 15) who were subjected to case recycling, prolonged arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, terrorism-related designation, and the absence of fair trial guarantees, a group of United Nations experts issued a …
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) expresses its deep concern over the growing violations against lawyers appearing before the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP). The EFHR considers these developments part of a systematic pattern aimed at weakening the legal profession and silencing its independent voic…
The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned over the continued enforced disappearance of Turkish-Egyptian poet and political dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for more than 200 days. Abdulrahman Yusuf was arrested in Lebanon on 28 December 2024 and forcibly extradited to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …
The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned over the continued enforced disappearance of Turkish-Egyptian poet and political dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for more than 200 days. Abdulrahman Yusuf was arrested in Lebanon on 28 December 2024 and forcibly extradited to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …
The Egyptian Front for Human Rights (EFHR) strongly condemns the referral of dozens of lawyers and other human rights defenders in Egypt to criminal courts on the grounds of activities related to their professional or human rights work. While many of these lawyers face charges solely for exercising their legal right t…
The undersigned organizations support the letter by five UN Special Rapporteurs, published on 19 May 2024, addressing the Egyptian government in regards to the ongoing targeting of human rights lawyers through the use of counter-terrorism legislation, resulting in their imprisonment or compelling them to stop their hu…