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Egypt | With the blatant rigging of the upcoming 2018 presidential elections underway, Rights groups propose ten guarantees for free and fair elections

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Egypt Paper Unknown

December 20, 2017 03:46 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20618&lang=en The undersigned organizations condemn the repressive and unjust actions taken against all individuals who have announced their intention to run in the presidential elections scheduled to begin in February 2018, and propose ten guarantees to ensure free and fair elections...

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Egypt | A year after the law’s approval by the Egyptian Parliament Rights groups: No alternative but to repeal new association law, revision pointless

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Unknown

November 19, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20505&lang=en Marking one year since the Egyptian Parliament’s November 2016 approval of Law 70/2017 regulating civic associations, issued by President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi in May, the undersigned organizations reiterate their rejection of the law. For all practical purposes, the law...

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Egypt | Human rights & freedom of expression in Egypt – trapped between security services and the media

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Human Rights Media Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

October 04, 2017 06:27 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20296&lang=en Following the escalating violent attempts to suppress and divide civil society organizations, restrict their resources, and increase security measures to silence advocates for human rights and freedom of speech and expression in Egypt, the Egyptian state and media have...

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Egypt | New Law Will Cripple Egyptian NGOs

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Unknown

June 02, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=20004&lang=en We the undersigned civil society organizations strongly condemn the ratification of a new law regulating non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Egypt, issued by President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi on Wednesday, May 24. The law ushers in unprecedented levels of repression...

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Egypt | Egyptian Human Rights Organizations: Together against the police campaign targeting activists through prosecution and detention

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Egypt Human Rights Judicial Affairs Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

May 19, 2017 03:33 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19920&lang=en The undersigned organizations express their deep condemnation of the escalating police campaign targeting dozens of activists through prosecution and detention that took place last month, the last episode of which was breaking into the house of the ex-wife of leftist...

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Egypt | Does Egypt’s President Really Want to Fight Terrorism?

2017 Bahey Eldin Hassan Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism

April 12, 2017 05:54 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19817&lang=en The Islamic State’s affiliate in Egypt is on the march. On Palm Sunday, a pair of bombs killed 45 people at church. This was the third major attack on Coptic churches in less than four months — and the first such attack recently in major

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Egypt | Circles of Hell from Tahrir to Zagazig: When will the Normalization of Sexual Violence against Women End?

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Egypt Human Rights Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown Women Affairs

April 04, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19885&lang=en The mob-sexual assault of a university student in the early hours of Friday 31 March 2017 in the Qawmia area of the city of Zagazig, Sharkia governorate, tragically corroborates the persistence and prevalence of sexual violence against women in the Egyptian public...

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Egypt | In meetings with British Foreign Secretary and EU Human Rights Envoy : Combating sectarian violence requires respect for human rights and justice

2017 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Egypt Foreign Relations Human Rights Judicial Affairs Minorities Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Unknown

February 25, 2017 03:34 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19894&lang=en In meetings with British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and EU Human Rights Envoy Stavros Lambrinidis; Mohamed Zaree, CIHRS Egypt Programme director emphasized that respect for human rights and justice is the only way to contain terrorism and promote long-term stability...

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Egypt’s Attack on Civil Society

2016 Bahey Eldin Hassan Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Democracy and Politics Paper

October 14, 2016 05:52 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19218&lang=en Compared with some of my fellow Egyptians, I have been lucky. I have received only death threats. Some of my countrymen and women have lost their lives in the struggle for freedom and dignity. My first death threat came 25 years

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Egypt: President Sisi in a Crusader Fight with a Generation

2016 Bahey Eldin Hassan Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Egypt Human Rights Karim Lahidji Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Women Affairs

January 25, 2016 03:33 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Karim Lahidji, Bahey Eldin Hassan Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17984&lang=en The international community’s support given to Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime is primarily based on the notion that his regime maintains stability in the country. President Sisi keeps assuring that he is leading a successful...

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Did Egypt’s Parliamentary Election just trump citizens’ rights?

2015 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Democracy and Politics Paper Ragab Saad

November 20, 2015 05:54 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Ragab Saad Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17642&lang=en Introduction: Since the Muslim Brotherhood rule was toppled in July 2013, the regime of President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi has strived to consolidate his one-man rule; he painted the political opposition and civil society as traitors and foreign agents and exploited the...

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From Restriction to closure of public space in Egypt Egyptian Government Clamps Down on Rights Groups, Seeking their Eradication

2015 Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Civil Society Democracy and Politics Human Rights Paper Unknown

May 04, 2015 05:52 am

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Source: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=14940&lang=en The undersigned organizations utterly reject and condemn the increasingly aggressive actions taken by the Egyptian government and the investigating bodies against civil society, especially rights groups. We believe the goal of these measures is to slowly strangle the...

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