Egypt

The report observes that rights violations are escalating in tandem with a systematic strategy involving all state institutions, which has compounded the political, economic and social crises that continue to plague Egyptians.

The report examines the use of digital targeting by security forces and its far-reaching offline consequences – including arbitrary detention and torture – in five countries: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia.

The human rights crisis in Egypt has persisted and even worsened over the last three years, as confirmed by the mid-term report submitted by the Egyptian Taskforce for Human Rights{1} to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism at the United Nations.

The report shows how leading pro-government TV anchors and state-controlled media in Egypt are used to launch and then amplify smear campaigns against the few journalists still critical of the government.

The Public Prosecution needs to stop monitoring internet users out of respect for the privacy of citizens. The decision to establish the Monitoring and Analysis Unit (MAU) contradicts a number of laws and legal principles, not to mention the lack of transparency about the way it conducts its work.

The Ministry of the Interior, through the prison administration, continues to discriminate among prisoners, based on the prisoner’s background and the reasons for imprisonment.

Due to the state’s almost complete control over traditional media, social media platforms have become the main fora for free discussion of ideas and dissent; Facebook users are now the most prosecuted social media users in Egypt.

Civil society leaders in Egypt are urging the U.S. government to continue to condition and withhold military aid to Egypt until the Egyptian government makes meaningful reforms to its human rights practices.

In Egypt you can be detained, interrogated and tried in the same place without leaving or seeing a court.

Mohamed Ramadan, a human rights lawyer, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a 5-year ban on using the internet, in retaliation for his political speech online

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.

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

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.

A new counterterrorism law banned the dissemination of material that contradicts Defense Ministry accounts of militant attacks, severely curtailing journalists’ ability to report on national security topics.

LGBT YouTubers face arrest under the crime of “inciting debauchery”

Ranked 161st in annual global media freedom report

Crackdown on Morsi supporters results in more than 1000 deaths

Ranked 155th in annual global media freedom report

“Egypt ranked the third-deadliest country for the press in 2013”

Ranked 159th in annual press freedom index

Authorities shut down Muslim Brotherhood TV, raid Al Jazeera, arbitrarily arrest 40 journalists

Ranked 140th in annual global media freedom report

“Censorship, both official and self-imposed, is widespread”

Egyptian attempts to contain dissent by shutting down internet used as model for repressive regimes

Egypt plummets 39 places to 166th on press freedom index

State security prosecutor investigates “treason” charges against NGOs not registered under Associations Law