Cairo: 14 January 2021 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) revealed today that there are many detainees who have not seen sunlight nor interrogated since hearing their statements on 22 September 2020 before being held in Giza Prison, […]
Cairo: 11 January 2021 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that the Moroccan authorities should immediately release prominent academic and human rights defender Maati Monjib, who was arrested on 29 December 2020 in a culmination of […]
Cairo: 6 January 2021 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that the security services have started the new year by trampling over the Constitution and the law through continuing their police crackdown, the last victim of […]
Cairo: 31 December 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that what has happened at the detention renewal session of prisoner of conscience, researcher and teacher Reda Abdel-Rahman is nothing but an a ludicrous and […]
Ten years ago today, 26-year old Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest over injustice and state marginalization, igniting mass uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and other countries across the Middle East and North Africa. As we […]
Introduction The Labor and Social Protests Monitoring Center monitored 17 protests, ranging from vigils to gathering and suicide cases, which took place during the first half of December 2020. These protests were distributed geographically to a number of governorates all […]
The undersigned organisations strongly condemn the persecution of employees of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) and Egyptian civil society by the Egyptian government. We urge the global community and their respective governments to do the same and join […]
The second half of November 2020 witnessed 6 protests including one labor protest and five social protests. Suicide cases represented half of the protests’ forms as the reporting period witnessed three suicide attempts as a result of the economic and […]
Cairo: 1 December 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that it has been four years since the closure of the six Al-Karama Public Libraries, which were established by human rights lawyer Gamal Eid with the […]
Joint Statement This week marks an entire year spent by Coptic activist Ramy Kamel behind bars. The undersigned human rights organizations denounce Ramy’s continued arbitrary detention, in retaliation for his human rights work, locally and internationally, as a defender of […]
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the arrest of Gasser Abdel Razek, Executive Director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and one of the pioneers of the human rights movement in Egypt, as security forces took him from his […]
Cairo: 17 November 2020 Today, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) called on the Public Prosecutor and the Minister of Interior to provide protection for labor leader Rashad Kamal and journalist Sayed Abdellah since their lives and safety […]
The Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 16 protests, including 10 social protests in addition to 6 labor protests during the reporting period, which witnessed a significant escalation in demands for the right to work and the right […]
Cairo: 16 November 2020 The undersigned human rights organizations said today that the Egyptian security services’ ongoing crimes of kidnapping human rights defenders and fabricating cases and charges against them, the last of which is the arrest of Mohamed […]
Cairo: 12 November, 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that the continued incarceration of citizens held in pretrial detention while refraining from implementing the release orders issued by courts, keeping them in unlawful detentions, constitutes […]
Cairo: 11 November, 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that the curse of “rotation”- rotating pretrial detainees into new cases- has struck her client blogger Mohamed Oxygen, who was interrogated yesterday evening into Case […]
The undersigning human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian authorities’ blocking of at least 600 websites since May 2017 including media, political and human rights platforms. Blocking websites is a violation of people’ rights for access to information and freedom of […]
The Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 11 protests, including 9 social protests in addition to 2 labor protests during the second half of October 2020. The reporting period witnessed an upsurge in social protests in more than […]
Cairo: 28 October 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that the “brutality and abuse practiced by Tora Maximum-Security Prison II administration against our client Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Radwan, also known as “Mohamed Oxygen”, constitutes one […]
Cairo: 26 October 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) announced its rejection of the Justice Minister’s statements regarding the plan to conduct detention renewal sessions through video conferencing technology- which means that detained citizens would remain on […]
The undersigned human rights organizations call for charges to be dismissed in the trial of engineer Mamdouh Hamza, whose verdict is scheduled for October 26th. Guilty only of exercising his right to peaceful expression of opinion through social media, Hamza’s […]
The Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 12 protests, including 7 labor and professional protests in addition to 5 social protests, during the first half of October 2020. The reporting period witnessed an upsurge in labor protests in […]
Cairo: 19 October 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that the abuse and arbitrariness practiced by the National Security Apparatus against researcher Ayman Abdel-Moati constitutes a complete crime if the rule of law exists in […]
Cairo: 18 October 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that its human rights lawyer Amr Imam has started his second year of the remand detention (solitary confinement) for allegedly being accused in one of the […]
Joint statement: The undersigned human rights organizations categorically reject the continued policy of humiliation practiced by Egyptian authorities against detainees, especially political prisoners. Such policy will only lead to more negative consequences as a number of detainees in the Istiqbal […]