{"id":28606,"date":"2022-01-10T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/?p=28606"},"modified":"2022-01-10T11:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T11:37:48","slug":"the-most-important-instances-of-persecution-and-blatant-violations-that-anhri-and-its-team-were-subjected-to-which-drove-them-to-announce-the-suspension-of-their-activities-starting-today-january-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/?p=28606&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The most important instances of persecution and blatant violations that ANHRI and its team were subjected to which drove them to announce the suspension of their activities starting today, January 10, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. \n

    The seizure of <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> headquarters, <\/span><\/span>documents<\/span><\/span> and furniture, with the knowledge of <\/span><\/span>individuals<\/span><\/span> close to the security, and with <\/span><\/span>help from<\/span><\/span> Abd<\/span><\/span>ee<\/span><\/span>n Police Department and the Abd<\/span><\/span>ee<\/span><\/span>n Prosecution, and until today, <\/span><\/span>ANHRI<\/span><\/span> has not <\/span><\/span>retrieved<\/span><\/span> its furniture and <\/span><\/span>documents<\/span><\/span> since<\/span><\/span> 2013.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    The confiscation of <\/span><\/span>Wasla newspaper, which was published by <\/span><\/span>ANHRI<\/span><\/span> since 2010, <\/span><\/span>arresting <\/span><\/span>the workers of the printing press and <\/span><\/span>stopping its release<\/span><\/span>. 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    The <\/span><\/span>decision to ban<\/span><\/span> ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> founder and director from traveling in February 2016, in connection with the civil society case, Case 173 of 2011<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> which is still in place to this day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    The decision to freeze the assets<\/span><\/span> of<\/span><\/span> ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> founder and director in 2016 in connection with the same case, <\/span><\/span>which is still in place<\/span><\/span> to this day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. \n

    Defamation campaigns against <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> director, his daughter (who is a minor) and his wife, <\/span><\/span>from<\/span><\/span> 2016 until today.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  6. \n

    The shutting down<\/span><\/span> of all of <\/span><\/span>\u201cAl-Karama\u201d <\/span><\/span>public libraries <\/span><\/span>(<\/span><\/span>six public libraries in poor neighborhoods<\/span><\/span>)<\/span><\/span> founded<\/span><\/span> by<\/span><\/span> ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> director<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> G<\/span><\/span>amal Eid, with the <\/span><\/span>money<\/span><\/span> of<\/span><\/span> the Roland Burger Human Dignity Award <\/span><\/span>he received<\/span><\/span> from Germany, a police closure and without a judicial decision.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  7. \n

    Investigating<\/span><\/span> ANHRI\u2019s d<\/span><\/span>eputy <\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span>xecutive <\/span><\/span>d<\/span><\/span>irector, Rawda Ahmed, and her release on a bail of 20 thousand Egyptian pounds, pending <\/span><\/span>Case<\/span><\/span> 173 <\/span><\/span>of<\/span><\/span> 2011 <\/span><\/span>against<\/span><\/span> civil society. 2017.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  8. \n

    Blocking ANHRI\u2019s website, then blocking Katib website, which is affiliated to ANHRI, 9 hours after its launch. 2017<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  9. \n

    The <\/span><\/span>National Security summoned two of <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> lawyers and pressured them to <\/span><\/span>quit their job at ANHRI.<\/span><\/span> 2017<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  10. \n

    The <\/span><\/span>arrest of <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s IT & networks officer<\/span><\/span> and <\/span><\/span>torturing him<\/span><\/span>, and h<\/span><\/span>e was forced<\/span><\/span> to flee outside Egypt<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> 2018<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  11. \n

    Increasing the frequency of defamation, <\/span><\/span>smear<\/span><\/span> and incitement against <\/span><\/span>ANHRI<\/span><\/span> and its director, especially after <\/span><\/span>m<\/span><\/span>eeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in January 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  12. \n

    Stealing the <\/span><\/span>car of<\/span><\/span> ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> director, <\/span><\/span>G<\/span><\/span>amal Eid<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> from under <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> headquarters, by an officer accompan<\/span><\/span>ied by other<\/span><\/span> individuals<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> Although there is a <\/span><\/span>video recording of the theft<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> t<\/span><\/span>he car <\/span><\/span>has<\/span><\/span> not been returned and the incident was<\/span><\/span> shelved<\/span><\/span>. September 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  13. \n

    The <\/span><\/span>brutal physical assault by armed officers carrying radios on <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> director, <\/span><\/span>G<\/span><\/span>amal Eid, which resulted in breaking his ribs, and stealing items from him. October 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  14. \n

    The arrest of ANHRI\u2019s lawyer, <\/span><\/span>Amr Imam<\/span><\/span>, who <\/span><\/span>has been imprisoned since October 2019 until now.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  15. \n

    The Public Prosecution, despite <\/span><\/span>having heard<\/span><\/span> witnesses and <\/span><\/span>having watched<\/span><\/span> security cameras\u2019 footage<\/span><\/span> that recorded the physical assault incident, <\/span><\/span>shelved<\/span><\/span> the investigations and contributes to the impunity<\/span><\/span> of the perpetrators<\/span><\/span>. November 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  16. \n

    Smashing the <\/span><\/span>car of the <\/span><\/span>d<\/span><\/span>eputy <\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span>xecutive <\/span><\/span>d<\/span><\/span>irector<\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Rawda Ahmed, which was borrowed by <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s <\/span><\/span>director and parked under his house, by armed officers carrying<\/span><\/span> radios<\/span><\/span>, and the prosecution <\/span><\/span>has shelved <\/span><\/span>the incident. November 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  17. \n

    Repeated phone threats and despite giving the prosecution the phone number, the prosecution <\/span><\/span>has shelved<\/span><\/span> the incident. November 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  18. \n

    Armed police officers<\/span><\/span> in private cars assault <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> director and douse him with paint next to his ho<\/span><\/span>me<\/span><\/span>, and the prosecution contributes to their impunity after an unfair investigation. <\/span><\/span>E<\/span><\/span>nd of December 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  19. \n

    Police summon<\/span><\/span>s for<\/span><\/span> some of <\/span><\/span>ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> employees <\/span><\/span>in an attempt<\/span><\/span> to pressure them to work as <\/span><\/span>informants<\/span><\/span> on<\/span><\/span> ANHRI<\/span><\/span> for the national security.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  20. \n

    The arrest of <\/span><\/span>one of ANHRI\u2019s<\/span><\/span> researchers <\/span><\/span>from<\/span><\/span> May 2020 until August 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  21. \n

    Lawsuits filed<\/span><\/span> by<\/span><\/span> lawyers close to the security against <\/span><\/span>ANHRI<\/span><\/span> and its director, accompanied by intense <\/span><\/span>defamation<\/span><\/span> campaigns in the media.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  22. \n

    An unofficial <\/span><\/span>message<\/span><\/span> that it will not be possible for ANHRI to continue under the same name in case it decides to register according to the NGOs law, and that work in the areas of freedom of expression, press freedom or the conditions of prisons and prisoners of conscience, will not be tolerated.<\/span><\/span> In addition to<\/span><\/span> being accused<\/span><\/span> in<\/span><\/span> the civil society <\/span><\/span>case<\/span><\/span> that started 11 years ago, w<\/span><\/span>hich<\/span><\/span> makes it difficult to<\/span><\/span> sign papers <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>r deal with official <\/span><\/span>bodies<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Out of concern for the safety and freedom of the team, and due to our inability to deal with such brutal police violations, we decided to suspend our work as an organization, and continue as individual lawyers, to defend human rights and the right of Egyptians to a state of the rule of law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    ANHRI\u2019s team<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    ANHRI\u2019s founders Gamal Eid & Rawda Ahmed<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Monday, January 10, 2022.<\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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    The seizure of ANHRI\u2019s headquarters, documents and furniture, with the knowledge of individuals close to the security, and with help from Abdeen Police Department and the Abdeen Prosecution, and until today, ANHRI has not retrieved its furniture and documents since 2013. The confiscation of Wasla newspaper, which was published by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"labor":[394],"years":[],"class_list":["post-28606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-statements","labor-homepost"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28630,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28606\/revisions\/28630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28606"},{"taxonomy":"labor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flabor&post=28606"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anhri.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyears&post=28606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}