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Spotlight: Egypt Attacks

Egyptian human rights defender facing government defamation campaign

11 May 2019
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Mohamed Soltan has been the target of a defamation campaign by the Egyptian government due to his advocacy work.

Egypt Censorship Free Expression & the Law

Egypt tests new censorship law with handling of al-Mashhad website block

The state's media regulator used a new law to block al-Mashhad at the height of the referendum campaign.

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)‎ 8 May 2019

Egypt Attacks Free Expression & the Law

CIHRS: Why we're pushing back against the Egyptian president's constitutional coup

This has been a grim month for Egyptians who seek a better life and believe in dignity and freedom.

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)‎24 April 2019

Egypt Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law

Egypt: Constitutional amendments entrench repression

The amendments will undermine the Egyptian judiciary's dwindling independence and expand the military's power to intervene in political life.

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)‎22 April 2019

Latest from Egypt

Egyptian journalist freed conditionally after being held for years without trial

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Attacks Free Expression & the Law 11 April 2019
Egypt: Reprisal against award-winning actors for speaking out against repression

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Egypt Attacks Censorship 4 April 2019
In Egypt, 'freedom' ends daily at 6pm for Shawkan and Abdelfattah

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 3 April 2019
#WelcomeHomeAlaa: Egyptian revolution activist Alaa Abd El Fattah released after five years in prison

‎ Global Voices Advox

Egypt Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 30 March 2019
Scheduled release of Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El Fattah delayed by 10 days

‎ Global Voices Advox

Egypt Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 15 March 2019
Photojournalist Shawkan freed from prison but must spend nights in a police cell

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 5 March 2019
IPI urges Egypt to release Shawkan immediately

‎ International Press Institute (IPI)

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 28 February 2019
New York Times reporter detained at Cairo Airport and denied entry to Egypt

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

Egypt Censorship Free Expression & the Law 21 February 2019
Rights groups call on al-Sisi to uphold constitution and leave office once term ends

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

Egypt Attacks Free Expression & the Law 28 January 2019
Ahead of Macron visit to Egypt, RSF unveils portraits of journalists jailed by Sisi regime

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 24 January 2019
UN Working Group says Egyptian journalist's detention is arbitrary

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Attacks Free Expression & the Law 31 December 2018
RSF calls for release of Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein Gomaa

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 23 December 2018
Egypt now: A conversation with Amira Abdelhamid

‎ Joey Ayoub for IFEX

Egypt Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 14 December 2018
How "national security" rhetoric and laws are being used to shut down Egypt's civic space

‎ Joey Ayoub for IFEX

Egypt Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 14 December 2018
Egyptian government conducts mass arrest campaign against human rights workers, lawyers and activists

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 19 November 2018
Shawkan still in Egypt prison three months after completing five-year term

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 19 November 2018
Egypt's new media law aims to silence independent online media

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Digital Rights Free Expression & the Law 8 November 2018
When will Egypt release photojournalist Shawkan?

‎ Global Voices Advox

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 21 October 2018
An account of alleged torture in Egyptian secret detention

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Egypt Attacks 11 October 2018
Egypt: Enforced disappearance of prominent rights defender Ezzat Ghoneim

‎ Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 4 October 2018
New report details deteriorating human rights conditions in Egypt

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

Egypt Attacks Free Expression & the Law 24 September 2018
Egypt's Cybercrime Law and Media Regulation Bill violate right to freedom of expression

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE)

Egypt 6 September 2018
Egypt's new cybercrime law legalizes Internet censorship

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Digital Rights Censorship 24 August 2018
RSF refers arbitrary detention in Egypt to UN Working Group

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Egypt Attacks 2 August 2018
8 years for a Facebook video: Egypt must immediately release Mona el-Mazbouh

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE)

Egypt 26 July 2018
Egyptian feminist Yara Sallam

‎ IFEX

Egypt Freedom of Assembly 17 July 2018

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Aiding Repression in Egypt: Why the United States Needs to Keep Human Rights Conditions on Military Aid

Civil society leaders in Egypt are urging the U.S. government to continue to condition and withhold military aid to Egypt until the Egyptian government makes meaningful reforms to its human rights practices.

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) 20 September 2018
Trial at the Ministry: On the trials held at the Ministry of Interior's facilities rather than at the Ministry of Justice

In Egypt you can be detained, interrogated and tried in the same place without leaving or seeing a court.

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) 16 June 2018
Freedom on the Net 2017: Egypt

Mohamed Ramadan, a human rights lawyer, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a 5-year ban on using the internet, in retaliation for his political speech online

Freedom House 16 November 2017