Latest in Tag: EIPR Highlight
Latest in Tag: EIPR
EIPR launches new campaign on social, economic justice in public spending
Absence of budget transparency directly leads to absence of social justice, says NGO
Anti-Terror Law encourages extrajudicial killings: NGOs
New law is a crushing hit to the constitution, say the EIPR and CIHRS
4 individuals deported from Egypt over LGBT accusations in 2 months
One man reported being entrapped by meeting the âpersonâ through a fake social network profile, then pressured into leaving
What does the state defend when defending ‘public morals’?
EIPR discussion tackled the stateâs attempts to teach behaviour
New anti-terrorism law passed despite criticism
Controversial articles removed in theory, restrictions reinforced in practice, experts say
New report highlights expansion of presidential powers
EIPR argues that Presidentâs decree to remove independent bodiesâ heads poses threat to accountability, effective governance
Journalists’ objections to anti-terror law under government revision
Amendment suggests fine instead of prison, sticking to official data only in military operations, says former Press Syndicate head
Anti-terror draft law is âunofficial state of emergencyâ: Civil societies
“Vague definitions in law leads to non-differentiation between terrorists and non-terrorists and broad crackdown,” says NGOs joint statement
Government defends anti-terror law, Press Syndicate protests
Law allows journalistsâ imprisonment, shutting down of websites and other media restrictions, say NGOs
Counter measures to threats should respect rights, rule of law: Rights groups
Extensive analysis and reactions by different groups continue amid tense political climate following Barakatâs killing
EIPR supports call for CIA torture ‘accountability’
Groups stay that the US “has much to gain”, if it rejects impunity and provides “adequate redress to the dozens and dozens of people it so brutally abused”
British intelligence agency spied on leading Egyptian human rights NGO
Ruling suggests intelligence agency may practice widespread monitoring of rights bodies worldwide
One year behind bars due to controversial protest law
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called on Sunday for immediate and unconditional release of Yara Sallam and 22 others convicted on protest charges
Court might withdraw death sentence in Morsi trial: Experts
Defence team spokesperson in âPrison Breakâ and espionage trials anticipates court to withdraw many death sentences
Extra-judicial community justice is increasing sectarian violence: EIPR
Resolving disputes outside of justice system reflects community power structures
EIPR slams state solution to displace Coptic families
Customary sessions have turned into a parallel unfair judiciary, the organisation said
Rights groups concerned of investigations into anti-torture judges
Judges are interrogated under pretence of their participation in workshop organised by âillegalâ organisation to draft anti-torture law
Coptic families forcibly displaced after Beni Suef attacks
Christian newspaper reports local Muslims tried to protect Copts from villagers angered over âinsults to Islamâ
NUCA offers 7 bids in 4 cities
Bids include developmental projects in New Cairo, Beni Suef and New Aswan
58 entities, 44 human rights defenders in solidarity with 17 Al-Sabbagh case defendants
Suspects face protest charges, include three eyewitnesses
North Sinai residents’ daily suffering: Curfew, displacement, lack of access to services
“Many innocents disappear following arbitrary arrests,” says Sinai-based politician
More families evacuate Gaza borders in North Sinai
Local residents shed light on security state’s impacts on everyday life
Torture, abuse, death daily occurrences in Egyptâs detention centres
Rights group documents 82 cases of deaths and severe physical abuse in February, legal experts convene to draft new anti-torture law
Student in hiding after prison sentence for atheism
Karim Al-Banna faces three-year prison term for Facebook posts in âhighly politicisedâ case, lawyer says
Protest, investment and BP: Egypt is open for business but not for accountability
With billions of dollars of investment due to flood Egypt, we look at how the government has introduced new legislation to silence citizensâ voices of dissent
Photojournalist facing trial on terrorism charges
Ahmed Gamal Ziada to stand before court’s branch in charge of terrorism affairs
Mona Iraqi, TV channel owner face court over âbathhouse stingâ
Pair to be charged with false news and defamation, but one of victims also believed to have set himself on fire
240 referred to Minya military courts for attacking churches
Defendants charged with violent acts after forceful dispersal of Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in
Security violence has reached ‘unprecedented levels’: EIPR
Rights groups hold interior ministry accountable for deaths at Air Defence Stadium
HRW lambasts Egypt’s prisons for deaths, torture
“Authorities are more aggressive when it comes to detained political activists,” says lawyer