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Spotlight: Egypt Free Expression & the Law

Egypt arrests at least seven individuals for raising rainbow flags at concert

2 October 2017
Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Egyptian activists told HRW they fear that the past week's arrests could signal the beginning of an even harsher crackdown on LGBT people and those who publicly support them.

Egypt Attacks Free Expression & the Law

One year since Egypt's unjust sentence against Gamal Eid, other rights defenders

A year has gone by since the unjust political ruling under the guise of a legal verdict to freeze the assets of ANHRI's director Gamal Eid, along with many human rights defenders and independent human rights organizations.

‎ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)‎26 September 2017

Egypt Free Expression & the Law

Detention with no end in sight for Egyptian rights advocate Hanan Badr el-Din

Hanan, a human rights defender and co-founder of the ÈAssociation of the Families of the DisappearedÈ group, was trying to get information about her forcibly disappeared husband when she was arrested herself and placed in preventative detention indefinitely.

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information‎ 4 September 2017

Egypt Digital Rights Censorship

Egyptian websites resist government blocking

In an unprecedented wave of censorship, the Egyptian government has so far blocked over 118 news websites inside Egypt.

‎ Reporters Without Borders‎10 July 2017

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The crackdown continues

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

Egypt Free Expression & the Law 14 May 2017
How tight can Egypt's grip on universities get?

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Egypt Free Expression & the Law Freedom of Assembly 23 March 2017
Alaa Abdel Fattah: A prisoner banned from reading

‎ Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression

Access to Information Egypt 3 March 2017
Egyptian human rights group files lawsuit to annul repressive assembly law

‎ Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

Egypt Freedom of Assembly 2 February 2017
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

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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

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