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May 7, 2020 News Release

Egypt: Covid-19 Cover for New Repressive Powers

Amendments Could Curb Rights in Name of ‘Public Order’

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gives an address at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, May 26, 2017.
May 7, 2020 News Release

Egypt: Covid-19 Cover for New Repressive Powers

Amendments Could Curb Rights in Name of ‘Public Order’

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gives an address at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, May 26, 2017.
May 5, 2020 Commentary

Coronavirus Adds Urgency to Ending Egypt’s Detention and Torture of Children

An illustration showing a boy being forced to stand with his bare heels over a plank of nails
April 29, 2020 News Release

Egypt: 2 Women Arbitrarily Detained, ‘Disappeared’

Immediately Reveal Whereabouts and Release or Charge with a Crime

Marwa Arafa, left, was arrested at her home in Cairo on April 20, 2020 and remains forcibly disappeared. Kholoud Said was arrested at her family home in Alexandria on April 21, 2020 and remains forcibly disappeared.
April 22, 2020 News Release

Egypt: Covid-19 Threatens Treatment for HIV Patients

Ensure Safe Access to Uninterrupted Care

A man wearing a face mask rides in an almost empty bus in Cairo, Egypt, March 30, 2020.
April 16, 2020 Interview

When Health Care Is Decimated By War: COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa

A man wearing a face mask rides in an almost empty bus in Cairo, Egypt, March 30, 2020.
March 23, 2020 Witness

Witness: Beaten, Shocked, Tortured – Life for Boys in Egypt’s Prisons

An illustration showing a boy being forced to stand with his bare heels over a plank of nails
March 23, 2020 News Release

Egypt: Security Forces Disappear, Torture Children

EU, US Should Stop Security Support Until Abuse Ends

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March 20, 2020 Dispatches

Egypt’s Denial of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

Ignoring LGBT Rights Endangers People in Time of COVID-19

Young people wave a rainbow flag at a Cairo concert featuring the Lebanese Band Mashrou’ Leila. Activist Ahmed Alaa confirmed that he raised a rainbow flag at the concert in a Buzzfeed video including this image prior to his arrest.
March 20, 2020 News Release

Egypt: Four Arrested Over COVID-19 Protest

Prominent Women Sought Release of Unjustly Detained Prisoners

Screenshot of a live stream video from the protest showing Ahdaf Soueif, right, Laila Soueif, left, and Rabab al-Mahdy in between before they were arrested at the protest in downtown Cairo on March 18.
March 16, 2020 Commentary

Coronavirus: Egypt's Prisons Could Spare Disaster with Conditional Releases

In crowded, unhygienic prisons, the spread of the disease presents a serious threat. Will President Sisi put reason before punishment?

An Egyptian police officer at the entrance of the Tora prison in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
March 12, 2020 UPR

Egypt Universal Periodic Review Outcome Statement

Item 6 Universal Periodic Review

March 11, 2020 Statement

Human Rights Council Should Take Action on Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and India

Item 4 General Debate – Oral Intervention

February 21, 2020 Letter

NGO Joint Letter to the EU on Human Rights in Egypt

February 13, 2020 Commentary

Guantanamo’s Ugly Taint on US Diplomacy

In this photo reviewed by US military officials, flags fly in front of the tents of Camp Justice, April 18, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

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