URGENT APPEAL FOR ACTION: EGYPT SECURITY FORCES RAID LEADING HUMAN RIGHT ORGANIZATION, HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS ARRESTED AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO (19 December, 2013) The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) …
The Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights raided and staff arrested… The Beginning of a New Wave of Oppression
In an unprecedented escalation, the Egyptian security forces, in the early hours of the morning, raided the headquarters of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, and arrested Mustafa …
Egypt and political violence
Across Egypt’s varied governments in the last 40 years, one characteristic unites them all: a common failure to respond to the root causes of political violence, writes Bahieddin Hassan ‘The …
Abducted human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh and her three colleagues must be released unharmed
Four Syrian activists abducted in the Damascus suburbs, apparently in relation to their human rights and humanitarian work, must be released immediately and unconditionally, 16 human rights organizations said today. …
Egypt: No Acknowledgment or Justice for Mass Protester Killings Set Up a Fact-Finding Committee as a First Step
Thirteen Egyptian and international human rights organizations called on the Egyptian authorities today, on international Human Rights Day, to acknowledge, and seriously and thoroughly investigate the killing of up to …
Urgent appeal for the release of prisoners of conscience and all detainees in Syria
The undersigned organizations express their utmost concerns as for the fate of tens of thousands of detainees in Syria and urge all parties to guarantee in all circumstances their physical …
Despite widespread objections, government insists on passing a law “preventing” peaceful assembly, and refers for Presidential ratification
The undersigned organizations deplore attempts made by the interim government to pass a law on the “regulation of the right to hold public meetings, processions and peaceful demonstrations in public …
End unfair imprisonment of Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, eligible for early release
The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Front Line Defenders, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and the Cairo Institute for …
Sentencing 12 Azhar students to 17 years in prison is a violation of justice and the law
The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the verdict by Al Gamaleya court of misdemeanor in case no. 7332/2013 on the 12 November 2013 to sentence 12 student at El Azhar university …
Escalating demands are overwhelming an inadequately funded and understaffed OHCHR
To: All Member States of the United Nations Re: Providing adequate funding for OHCHR to fulfill its vital mandate; Ensuring continued support for OHCHR’s crucial work on civil society cooperation. …