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Spotlight: Egypt Free Expression & the Law

The crackdown continues

14 May 2017
Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Activist Mohammed Zaree was short-listed for the prestigious Martin Ennals human rights award. But the Egyptian government was not impressed: It may soon decide to put him behind bars.

Egypt Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly

How tight can Egypt's grip on universities get?

With 21 extrajudicial killings reported in the last three years, Egypt's student movement needs the world's spotlight more than ever.

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression‎23 March 2017

Access to Information Egypt

Alaa Abdel Fattah: A prisoner banned from reading

Abdel Fattah has been in isolation since the beginning of 2015. Because of restrictions on his right to read, to receive information, and to correspond with family and friends, he is severely limited in his ability to communicate with the outside world.

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression‎ 3 March 2017

Egypt Freedom of Assembly

Egyptian human rights group files lawsuit to annul repressive assembly law

Egypt's assembly law, issued 103 years ago by British colonial authorities during WWI, was unanimously repealed by parliament in 1928. It is still being used today to jail thousands of innocent Egyptians.

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies‎ 2 February 2017

Latest from Egypt

Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji released from prison pending appeal

‎ PEN International

Egypt 24 December 2016
A new low point for Sisi's Egypt?

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 25 November 2016
On Egypt's favourite intimidation method

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Egypt 23 November 2016
Egypt's Draft NGO Law Dismantles Civil Society

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Egypt 23 November 2016
Egypt's not so secret war

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Egypt Freedom of Assembly 15 November 2016
Call on Egypt to end the prolonged detention of photojournalist Shawkan

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Egypt 15 November 2016
Is Egypt's human rights community on the verge of disappearing?

‎ EuroMed Rights

Egypt 23 September 2016
Civil society chilled by Egypt's asset freeze

‎ IFEX

Egypt 19 September 2016
What happens when Egypt's president, state media, and judiciary team up to wipe out civil society

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Egypt Freedom of Assembly Free Expression & the Law 15 September 2016
How governments chip away at rights defenders' freedom and spirit

‎ Hiba Zayadin

Egypt Turkey Censorship Free Expression & the Law Bahrain 12 August 2016
Shawkan's Kafkaesque trial

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 8 August 2016
Egypt: Civil society faces existential threat

‎ IFEX

Egypt 24 June 2016
How Egypt's civil society is defending countless prisoners of conscience

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Egypt Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 17 June 2016
U.N. experts to Egypt: Free 'Rabaa Operations Room' journalists

‎ International Press Institute

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 8 June 2016
Another first for Sisi as press syndicate leaders are detained, interrogated

‎ Hiba Zayadin for IFEX

Egypt Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 1 June 2016
Imprisoned hunger-striking protesters in Egypt may be freed

‎ Human Rights Watch

Egypt Freedom of Assembly 25 May 2016
Gamal Eid

‎ IFEX

Egypt Censorship Free Expression & the Law 24 May 2016
A life, interrupted

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Egypt Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 18 May 2016
Egypt's Interior Ministry marks World Press Freedom Day by storming press syndicate

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Egypt Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 3 May 2016
In run-up to planned protests, Egyptian authorities conduct mass arrests

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Egypt Freedom of Assembly 25 April 2016
Journalists injured, harassed covering protests in Egypt

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Egypt Attacks Freedom of Assembly 18 April 2016
Arbitrary and unlawful persecution of Eid and Bahgat must end

‎ IFEX Campaigns

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 13 April 2016
Human rights defenders face prosecution in unprecedented crackdown on NGOs

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Egypt Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 23 March 2016
Egypt's regime tenaciously hounds last remaining voice of victims: Civil society

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Egypt Freedom of Assembly 21 March 2016
Emad Mubarak: Dissent considered more dangerous in Egypt than murder

‎ Emad Mubarak

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 18 March 2016
Video mocking ISIS lands four Egyptian children in jail on blasphemy charges

‎ Human Rights Watch

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 14 March 2016

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Freedom of the Press 2017: Egypt

Egypt was the world’s third-worst jailer of journalists in 2016, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), with 25 journalists behind bars as of December.

Freedom House 27 April 2017
esieged Universities: Student rights in Egyptian public universities post 2013

This report documents and analyses cases of violations that pertain to students’ right to assembly, organisation, education and freedom of expression.

Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression 23 March 2017
Toward the Emancipation of Egypt: A Study on the Assembly Law

Although invalidated through a unanimous repeal by the Egyptian Parliament in 1928, the Assembly Law continues to be unlawfully exploited in tandem with the notorious Protest Law, passed in November 2013.

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies 31 January 2017