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Egypt: 22 more arrests in biggest crackdown on LGBTI community for a decade-and-a-halfPress release 02 Oct 2017
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Egypt: six men face abusive anal examinations in homophobic crackdown following rainbow flag incidentPress release 30 Sep 2017
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Urgent Action Update: Human Rights lawyer detained in dire conditions in Egypt
Detained human rights lawyer Ibrahim Metwaly is being held in solitary confinement.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Egyptian Human Rights lawyer must be released
Ibrahim Metwaly was detained on 10 September
Urgent action outcomes 29 Sep 2017 -
Egypt: former presidential candidate given jail term in 'politically-motivated' convictionPress release 25 Sep 2017
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Egypt: acquittal of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa welcomed, but hundreds convicted in mass trialPress release 18 Sep 2017
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Urgent Action: Couple in Egypt held in solitary confinement for 66 days
Ola al-Qaradawy and her husband Hossam Khalaf have been detained in solitary confinement since 3 July.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Egyptian authorities' blocking of NGO website condemnedPress release 05 Sep 2017
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Urgent Action update: Shawkan still detained after four years in Egypt
On 12 August, the Cairo criminal court adjourned Mahmoud Abu Zeid's court hearing 19 August, for the 35th time. Today is the four-year anniversary of Mahmoud Abu Zeid arrest.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Egyptian prisoner of conscience released
Human rights defender Tarek Hussein was released on 27 July. After being arbitrarily detained for 40 days, the former prisoner of conscience has now joined his family.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: More Uighur students in Egypt at risk of forcible return to China
Another 10 Uighur students were forcibly returned by the Egyptian authorities back to China, bringing the total to 22 in July, while approximately 200 more remain at risk of being forcibly returned to the country.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Egyptian defender arbitrarily detained
Human rights defender and lawyer Tarek Hussein has been arbitrarily detained by the Egyptian security forces for more than a month, despite the prosecutor’s decision to release him on bail on 18 June.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Uighur students in Egypt at risk of forcible return to China
According to media reports, around 150 Uighurs have been detained in Egypt and have either already been, or are currently at imminent risk of, being forcibly returned to China. If returned, they are at real risk of serious human rights violations.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Defender at risk of continued detention in Egypt
The South Banha prosecutor renewed on 18 June the detention for human rights defender Hanan Badr el-Din for 15 more days.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist in solitary confinement for 1234 days in Egypt
On 4 February, the Cairo Administrative Court postponed activist Ahmed Douma's appeal against his prolonged solitary confinement to 16 May. He has been held in poor detention conditions since his arrest on 3 December 2013.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017 -
Egypt: proposed new laws will increase repressionPress release 19 Apr 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Fifth and final activist in Abdeen case released in EgyptGamila Seryel-Dain, the last jailed activist from the group of five activists sentenced in the ‘Abdeen case’ to two years in prison for violating Egypt’s repressive 2013 protest law, was released on 14 March after receiving a presidential pardon. All…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Egyptian prisoner in solitary confinement on hunger strike
Ahmed Amin Ghazali Amin has been on hunger strike since 9 March, in protest against his solitary confinement, which he has been held in since May 2016, when he was sentenced to death by a Military Court. An appeal hearing is still due to be set. If…
Urgent action outcomes 21 Mar 2017 -
Egypt: Government must protect Coptic Christians targeted in string of deadly attacks in North SinaiPress release 01 Mar 2017
