Click here to view the Report Today, 12 March 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) released a report entitled “Cut off from the World: Systematic Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders in the Gulf Region for Engaging with ...

CIHRS report documents testimonies of the wounded and demonstrators from both sides   On 5and 6 December, bloody clashes took place in the vicinity of the Ittihadiyya Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt. These events came to be known as the “Ittihadiyya clashes” ...

In the Mubarak era, a law restricting the press was drafted for the sake of a “free press” and a law repressing civil society was submitted in the name of “liberalizing civil society.” In the same vein, the Interior Ministry ...

In the first one hundred days of Mohamed Morsy’s presidency, human rights issues remained neglected and state authorities continued to violate human rights, even though the current president possesses more legislative and executive powers than any president before him. The ...

"Media and the parliamentary elections in Egypt" is a report published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies evaluating the media performance during 2010 parliamentary elections .the Media monitoring team consists of 20 monitor and researcher evaluating the performance ...

In light of the ongoing debate on the “January 25th” Constitutional process and its core provisions, the Cairo Institute for Human Right Studies (CIHRS) and several Egyptian human rights organizations have submitted a set of basic principles which they believe ...

Last year’s Autumn the Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, often simply referred to as the Brotherhood, sent its political party’s draft Platform entitled “Party’s Platform- First Reading” to a number of politicians, academics and intellectuals for their consultation ...