Egypt

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 12 July 2006 EOHR press release: Journalism In Egypt: Caught Between Laws And the Government On 12 July 2006, the Egyptian Organization For Human Rights (EOHR) issued its report on freedom of the press, entitled ” Journalism In Egypt: Caught Between Laws And the Government”. This report was prepared […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – HRinfo welcomes the orders issued by the newly appointed public prosecutor to release the two prisoners of opinion, Mohammad Al-Sharqawy and Kareem Al-Shai’r, who have been unjustifiably jailed for two months. They were arrested for supporting the Egyptian judges’ movement calling for judiciary independence. The release orders were issued 18 July 2006. Al-Sha’ir […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is an 11 July 2006 Human Rights Watch press release: Egypt: Journalists Still Risk Jail Under Press Law (Cairo, July 11, 2006) – Egypt’s newly amended Press Law, which mandates prison sentences for insulting public officials in the media, still has numerous restrictions on press freedom that clearly violate international standards, […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 10 July 2006 EOHR press release: Custody Over Artwork A Threat to Freedom of Creation The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expresses its worries concerning the increasing trend of confiscating and restricting freedom of creativity by claiming that some artwork is contradicting with morals and values. These claims […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned a ruling by an administrative court attached to Egypt’s council of state upholding an information and communication ministry decision in mid June 2006 that the authorities can block, suspend or shut down any website liable to pose a threat to national security. The judge who issued the ruling, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: EGYPT: Editor, reporter for weekly are sentenced to jail New York, June 26, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores today’s decision by an Egyptian court to sentence two journalists to a year in prison for publishing a report critical of President Hosni Mubarak, his […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Blogger Alaa Abd El-Fatah was released on 22 June 2006 at about 2 p.m. (GMT). His wife said he had spent 24 hours standing in a small cell. She said he was also beaten, but she was not sure if it was by his cellmates or police officers. The authorities had not intended […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – HRinfo has welcomed the release of accused activists in state security case no. 415/2006. However, HRinfo was disappointed because the detention of both Mohamed Al-Sharkawi and Karim Al-Shaer was renewed for 15 more days. The court session to consider the extension of Al-Sharkawi’s and Al-Shaer’s detentions was marked by a quarrel between the […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 15 June 2006 EOHR press release: EOHR Condemns the People’s Assembly Decision to Confiscate the Novel “The Da Vinci Code” EOHR expresses its vehement concern over the People’s Assembly decision to ban the motion picture “The Da Vinci Code” in Egypt, and the Minister of Culture Affairs’ decision to […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – In a 15 June 2006 communiqué submitted to the public prosecutor, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) holds the Interior Ministry totally responsible for the life and health condition of blogger and prisoner of opinion Mohammad Al-Sharqawi. HRinfo demands that the public prosecutor require the Interior Ministry to allow Al-Sharqawi to […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The following is a 14 June 2006 HRinfo press release: May was the worst month for freedom of expression during the last quarter century Cairo, 14 June 2006 – The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) issued a briefing paper today on the violations perpetrated by the Egyptian government against freedom of […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: Egypt: Police Severely Beat Pro-Democracy Activists One Activist Also Sexually Assaulted (Cairo, May 31, 2006) – President Hosni Mubarak should immediately order an independent judicial investigation into last Thursday’s severe beatings by security agents of political activists Karim al-Sha’ir and Mohamed al-Sharqawi, Human Rights […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrests of two bloggers, Mohammed Sharkawy and Karim El-Shaer, during a demonstration at the Press Syndicate in Cairo on 25 May 2006, and the behaviour of the police in using violence to disperse protestors, and attacking “Los Angeles Times” correspondent Hossam El-Hamalwy as he was trying to […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 25 May 2006 CPJ press release: In Egypt, journalists under fire as protests continue New York, May 25, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by attacks on the Egyptian press related to coverage of alleged election fraud and protests over judicial independence. The Egyptian state […]

(CIHRS/IFEX) – The following is a CIHRS press release: On the anniversary of Black Wednesday: The African Union decides to investigate the crimes of referendum day The Egyptian government faces nine charges Today, on the first anniversary of the attacks made on referendum day, 24 Egyptian NGOs announced that the African Commission for Human and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for the release of Hamada Abdul Latif, the correspondent of the independent weekly “Al Karama” in the province of El-Dakahleya, who was arrested on 21 May 2006 while covering peasants being evicted in Dekernis, 150 km north of Cairo. He is accused of “taking photographs without permission” and […]