During the period from 15 July to 31 July 2020, ANHRI’s Trade Unions, Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 11 protest movements, including 8 labor and professional protests in addition to three social protests. Protesting methods: Suicide cases […]
Cairo, July 27th, 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information stated that “Sarah Fathi” – the Arabic Network submitted a complaint to the Public Prosecutor last June reporting that the citizen disappeared since April – appeared in Zaytoun Prosecution […]
Midterm elections for the Engineers General Syndicate under tight security During the period from 1 July to 15 July, ANHRI’s Trade Unions, Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 9 protest movements, including 7 labor and professional protests in […]
Cairo: 16 July 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that its role in defending freedom of expression and public freedoms- like any other independent organizations that work on establishing the rule of law- has diminished. […]
Cairo: 7 July 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said today that the increasing inaction displayed by the Public Prosecutor towards the mounting illegal detention and enforced disappearance reports/complaints lodged before him, by refraining from opening investigations into […]
During the period from 15 June to 30 June, ANHRI’s Trade Unions, Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 14 protest movements, including 5 labor and professional protests in addition to 9 social protests. Protesting methods: The […]
Cairo: 5 July 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has released an observational study of the most important anti-freedom laws enacted during the period from 2013 to 2020, transforming Egypt from a country that seeks democracy, after […]
Cairo: 30 June 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said today that the Public Prosecutor, the Minister of the Interior, and the Assistant Minister of the Interior of the Prison Authority should reopen visits to the […]
The undersigned human rights organizations condemn the series of violations the detained activist Alaa Abd-El Fattah’s family has faced. The last of which was today, when her sister Sanaa Seif was abducted by a police force in front of the […]
During the period from 1 June to 15 June, ANHRI’s Trade Unions, Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 10 protest movements, including 4 labor and professional protests in addition to 6 social protests. Protesting methods: The […]
Cairo: 17 June 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has filed a report to the Public Prosecutor urging him to use his legally established authority to release activist Mohamed Adel; as he reached today, June 17, the […]
Following the rise in the number of patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Egyptian authorities have taken significant, large-scale measures in order to limit the spread of the virus. These include imposing a curfew on citizens for a specified number […]
Cairo, 17 May, 2020 The undersigned organizations call for dropping the charges against Lina Atallah, editor-in-chief of Mada Masr website, who was detained on Sunday afternoon, while she was in the area designated for citizens outside the Tora Prison […]
During the period from 1 May to 15 May, ANHRI’s Trade Unions, Labor Protests and Social Movements Monitoring Center monitored 9 labor and professional protest movements in addition to 6 social protests. Despite the individual nature of the protests took […]
Organisations which support human rights, press freedom and journalists are calling on United Nations mechanisms and member states to help save the lives of four Yemeni journalists who were sentenced to death in April 2020 in the capital Sana’a on […]
The Egyptian government’s exploitation of the coronavirus pandemic to amend the Emergency Law (Law 162 of 1958) is condemned by the undersigned independent rights organizations. The amendments, ratified on Thursday May 7th by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, permanently introduce military […]
May 5, 2020 Amid widespread calls to reduce the country’s prison population in order to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, the Egyptian government has instead embarked on countrywide state security raids throughout the last two months, arresting dozens and adding even […]
4 May 2020 The undersigned rights organizations reiterate our demand for the immediate release of persons held in pretrial detention, especially prisoners of conscience. 24- year-old director and filmmaker Shady Habash died on May 2nd in Cairo’s Tora Prison as […]
Cairo: 3 May 2020 On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, which marks today, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) announces the release of its annual report on the state of freedom of expression and freedom of […]
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, lawyers, journalists, and activists, urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Alaa Abdel Fattah, our courageous friend, human rights activist, and blogger. Alaa has been on a hunger strike for over two […]
The signatory human rights organizations denounce the exclusion of prisoners of conscience from the April 14th pardon issued by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Persons including peaceful opposition politicians, human rights defenders, journalists, and lawyers are ineligible for the pardon while […]
Joint statement We, the undersigned Egyptian political and civil society organizations, strongly condemn the decision issued on April 18 to include Zyad Elelaimy, former MP and leader within the Egyptian Democratic Party, as well as Ramy Shaath, political activist and […]
The repercussions of social-distancing measures carried out by the Egyptian authorities to curb the spread of the coronavirus have continued to affect the labor and social protest movements. Some social protests also pointed to the lack of sufficient access to […]
Cairo: 19 April 2020 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemns the ruling issued by Cairo Criminal Court to place leftist lawyer and former MP Zyad al-Elaimy on the terrorism list for a period of five years, […]
Since 2011 more than 180 health workers were killed under torture in the detention centers of the Syrian government, in addition to over 500 attacks on health facilities in Syria, more than 90% of them by the forces of the […]