Egypt

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release: EOHR Condemns Arbitrary Measures Against the Labor Party and its Newspaper The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expresses its strong condemnation of the sudden decision taken on 20 May 2000 by the Political Parties Committee (the state body responsible for authorizing the formation of political […]

(HRW/IFEX) – In a 9 May 2000 letter to Prime Minister Atef Ebeid, the Academic Freedom Committee of Human Rights Watch protested sanctions imposed in March by the Ministry of Education on primary school teachers who attended training sessions on civic education and democratization. In March, Minister of Education Hussein Kamil Bahaa Al-Din issued a […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release: In the Face of Cultural Violence The Organization denounces incitement against writers and artists. The EOHR expresses its alarm over the apostatizing campaign against two writers published by the Ministry of Culture, those being the Syrian novelist Haider Haider, author of the novel Feast of the […]

(WAN/IFEX) – In a 3 May 2000 letter to President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, WAN and the World Editors Forum expressed their serious concern at the seizure of the most recent issue of the magazine “Al-Tadhamoun”. According to reports, 10,000 copies of the monthly “Al-Tadhamoun”, which is published in Cyprus for the Egyptian market, were seized […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 17 April 2000 EOHR press release: The Series of Imprisoning Journalists for Cases of Freedom of Expression is Resumed Prison is waiting for Salah Kabadaya chief editor of Al Ahrar Newspaper and Four Others EOHR has received the unfortunate ruling issued by the Abdin Misdemeanor Court on April 16, […]

The following is a 19 April 2000 CPJ news alert: EGYPT: Five Opposition Journalists Sentenced to Jail Terms New York, April 19, 2000 – A Cairo criminal court sentenced five journalists working for the opposition weekly newspaper Al-Ahrar to six months in prison on April 16 for allegedly libeling Muhammad Fahim al-Rayyan, the chairman of […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Information Minister Safwat El Chérif, RSF protested the jail sentences against five journalists with the daily newspaper “Al-Ahrar”. Salah Qabadaya, Hossam Solimane, Mohamed Abdel Fahim, Hicham Moustafa and Nabil Rizqallah were accused of “libel”. RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard asked the minister “to see to it that the journalists are […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release: Cairo: 5/4/2000 EOHR’s Campaign for the Defence of Freedom of Opinion and Expression An Appeal to Release Al Shaab Newspaper Journalists The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) expresses its astonishment over the continued detention of journalist Magdi Ahmad Hussein, editor in chief of Al Shaab […]

The following is a 1 April 2000 CPJ press release: CPJ Condemns Imprisonment of Egyptian Journalists Editor, Reporter, and Cartoonist Receive Jail Terms of up to Two Years for Libeling Minister of Agriculture New York, April 1, 2000 -The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the New York-based press freedom watchdog, today condemned an Egyptian criminal […]

Cairo 23/3/2000 An Appeal to the Members of the Parliament and the Shura Council for Real Guarantees for Sincere General Elections The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), is following with great concern the amendments expected to be added to law no. 73 for the year 1956 on the exercise of political rights, and presented […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 8 March and 23, 18, 16 and 15 February 2000** (EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release: The Secretary General of the EOHR returns to Cairo The Secretary General of the EOHR, Hafez Abu Seada, will arrive in Cairo at 7:30 p.m. on Friday March 10, 2000. He is […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 23, 18, 16 and 15 February 2000, 14 October and 16 June 1999** (ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 7 March 2000 ARTICLE 19 letter to several European Foreign Ministers drawing their attention to the repressive NGO law in Egypt: Dear [Minister], You may recall that we wrote to you […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 7 March 2000 EOHR press release: URGENT APPEAL FOR ACTION: Life of Journalist Gamal Abdel Raheem in Danger With extreme concern, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) follows the deterioration in the health condition of Al Gomhourrya journalist Gamal Abdel Raheem. Abdel Raheem announced that he would begin […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 6 March 2000 EOHR press release: Two Students Referred to the Emergency High State Security Court The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received with deep concern the news of the referral of two students to the Supreme State Security Court for Emergency. Both students are members of the […]

(Freedom House/IFEX) – Freedom House is expressing its concern for the security and well-being of Colonel Mohammed Al-Ghannam, a former distinguished legal advisor to the Egyptian Interior Ministry. Al-Ghannam was forced to retire in April 1999 following his public allegations of government involvement in corruption and human rights abuses. Al-Ghannam published a series of articles […]

23 February 2000 – for immediate release EGYPTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER UNDER THREAT Hafez Abu Saeda, Secretary-General of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) faces a jail term of seven to fifteen years for accepting money from the British Parliament’s All-Party Human Rights Committee. ARTICLE 19 today wrote to Egyptian President Mubarak asking for […]