Tag: human rights

The clashes began when mourners threw rocks at security forces located at one of Mansoura’s prisons, as they passed by the prison on their way from Al-Nasr mosque towards the Abdel Azeem family’s cemetery. (Photo By Ahmed El- Malky)
EgyptPolitics

ECESR releases report on Mansoura clashes

Report: One dead and 127 detained after clashes between protesters, police and…

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
EgyptPolitics

EU addresses Egypt situation

Catherine Ashton addressed the European Union parliament regarding future cooperation between Egypt…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
“No one has been held responsible for the violence that has occurred these last two years,” said Mahmoud Belaid, a human rights lawyer. “This must change.” (AFP Photo)
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Police assault two human rights lawyers

Central Security Forces conscripts attacked lawyers from two human rights groups for…

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein
Presidential Assistant on political affairs Pakinam El Sharkawy is visiting New York on Sunday to head Egypt’s delegation to the Fifty-seventh UN Commission on the Status of Women (Photo courtesy of Twitter)
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New Constitution ‘underlines rights of women’

Pakinam Al-Sharkawi spoke on the status of women in Egypt at the…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
The EIPR said the law itself goes against the key principles of personal freedom and personal property AFP Photo / Stringer
Politics

Human rights groups condemn Morsi’s ‘authoritarian trends’

The NGO law is similar to the Association law which former president…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
The Egyptian Coalition on Children’s Rights (ECCR) released a report titled “Our Children are Objects of Political Exploitation” (AFP Photo)
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13 minors arrested in Tahrir

Human rights organisations reject children’s detention alongside adults

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
The results showed that Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq received more media attention than other candidates in the first round of elections. Photo: Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq during the last presidential elections (AFP Photo)
EgyptPolitics

NGOs assess media performance during presidential elections

ANHRI and EOHR alarmed by the violations against journalists in Egypt

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy
Hafez Abu Se’da, Chairman of the EOHR, also expressed concerns over continued attempts to exclude human rights organisations, the group said on its website. (Photo Courtesy of Facebook Fan Page )
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NGO concerned over human rights in Egypt

As the Shura Council discusses the draft law regulating NGOs, the Egyptian…

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Families of prisoners in Sinai blocked off the Al-Arish central Sinai road in southern al-Arish, preventing night shift workers from arriving at cement factories in the centre of the peninsula. ( Photo by Nasser El-Azzazy)
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Third day of protest by families of Sinai prisoners

Families of prisoners in Sinai block the Al-Arish road and threaten escalation…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
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Torture Stats and Officials’ Comments

Despite reports and documented incidents on torture at the hands of Security…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt