Human rights community in Egypt calls on UN to ‘explicitly cancel’ anti-torture conference after to decision to postpone
The joint statement said the conference in Cairo should be canceled outright, rather than postponed.
The joint statement said the conference in Cairo should be canceled outright, rather than postponed.
In this conversation, veteran human rights defender Aida Seif al-Dawla speaks about locating the human rights movement in the wider political struggle. Traveling between the political movements and human rights…
Judge Hesham Raouf, who was involved in drafting anti-torture legislation, was summoned for interrogation for the second time.
“Enforced disappearance has become a key instrument of state policy in Egypt," says Amnesty International's Philip Luther.
The NCHR's 11th annual report called torture within prisons a prevalent rights violations in Egypt.
A number of rights organizations and political parties demanded an end to the interrogation of two judges and a lawyer who worked on…
Human rights lawyer and United Group law firm head Negad al-Borai has been summoned for interrogation on Tuesday May 17 in relation to…
The Cassation Court decided on Monday to refer two judges to investigation for proposing an anti-torture draft law, the private al-Watan newspaper…
«In late April, a small group of us from Egyptian NGOs and independent movements attended the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Forum on monitoring…»
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