Latest in Tag: Protest law Highlight
Latest in Tag: Protest law

101 Morsi supporters given 3 years imprisonment
Alleged Brotherhood members convicted of blocking roads, vandalism

Human rights organisation condemns violence against female activists
Nazra denounces physical assaults on female human rights advocates, calls for their unconditional release

29 NGOs protest new civil society draft law
Draft law is âunconstitutionalâ and âviolates freedom rightsâ, NGOs say

50 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to 5 years imprisonment
Defendants charged with violating Protest Law, lawyer claims lack of evidence

ESDP calls on law makers to strike down Protest Law
The law requires protesters to receive approval from the police station nearest to the intended location of the protest, and prohibits demonstrations originating at places of worship.

NGO âshockedâ at continued detention of anti-Protest Law demonstrators
Case involves trial of 24 people charged with breaching Protest Law

Trial of 24 activists postponed until 13 September
Activists arrested during a march against the Protest Law in Heliopolis

Appeals court sets date for Shura Council defendants
Activists sentenced to 15 years for breaking Protest Law to have appeal 22 July
16 Morsi supporters sentenced to three years imprisonment
Supporters charged with protesting without a permit and obstructing constitutional referendum

Misdemeanours Court to look into Itihadiya Palace protest case
Twenty-four arrested protesters taken to prison

Activist Ahmed Doumaâs trial postponed
Delay for court to investigate confiscated material

Nazra condemns targeting, detention of womenâs rights activists
Group says arrests due to womenâs legitimate activities in the defense of human rights.

Security forces disperse protest, arrest 24
Political parties and NGOs condemn arrests and call for the cancellation of the Protest Law

International day to support Egyptian detainees
Opposition ârevolutionaryâ forces call for international day to support Egyptian detainees, march to Itihadiya Palace to denounce Protest Law

Security and legal apparatuses âmay require far-reaching changesâ: EIPR report
The report addresses the latest cases of state violence in Egypt

Al-Dostour Party supports lawsuit against Protest Law
Proceedings for the lawsuit against controversial law to take place on Tuesday

Mahienour El-Massry refuses âany kind of amnestyâ from the government
Labour activist and Protest Law detainee demands the abolishment of the law in letter from prison
Suspects of breaking the Protest Law acquitted
Defendants arbitrarily arrested, says lawyer

112 found guilty of breaking Protest Law sentenced to 1 year
The defendants were arrested on 25 January 2014

‘Down with the classist society’: Mahienour El-Massry
Activist calls on revolutionaries from prison to provide alternatives for oppressed

15 days handed to 3 groups of detainees
One group had their detention extended while the other was issued 15 days of detention after being arrested in Friday protests

Amnesty International decries Egyptian human rights violations ahead of elections
Egyptian civil society organisations make 10 demands to the country’s next president

Mahienour El-Massry, 8 others sentenced to 2 years
Alexandria court upholds sentence for protests outside Khaled Said trial

Alaa Abdel Fattah trial postponed as bench asked to recuse itself
24 defendants are accused of violating the Protest Law last November
6 April to appeal against ban
Muslim Brotherhood accuses government of trying to âcrushâ dissent; Hamdeen Sabahy warns of the return of ârepressive stateâ

Detained 6 April members go on hunger strike
NGOs also to hold protest against detention of journalist in Washington DC
Prominent Alexandrian activist contests absentia conviction, trial date set
Mahienour El-Massry who was sentenced to serve two years in prison for violating the protest law, will have her first trial session on 20 May

Activists protest 3-year sentence for prominent 25 January revolutionaries
Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel and Ahmed Douma convicted of âthuggeryâ under controversial Protest Law

6 April favours laws that protect right to protest: General coordinator
Integrity of 6 April âcannot be questionedâ, says ANHRI Lawyer

Amnesty International demands âimmediate and unconditionalâ release of activists
Human rights group along, with friends and family, reiterate support for Maher, Adel and Douma