Egypt

The following is a 15 February 2000 Human Rights Watch press release: EGYPTIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER FACES YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT (February 15, 2000) — In a statement made today, six international human rights organizations condemned the referral of prominent human rights defender Hafez Abu Sa’ada before an (Emergency) Supreme State Security Court (ESSSC) which denies […]

The following is an EOHR press release regarding the referral of EOHR’s secretary general to court for trial. EOHR views this as an attempt to silence Hafez Abu Saeda as part of a wider attack against the organisation because of its human rights activities: Cairo 15/2/2000 Press Release Abd El Aziz Mohamed, President of Board […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release: Amendments to the Publications Law: a New Violation to the Right to Publish Newspapers The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) is extremely worried about the contents of a news item that appeared in the 1st of February, 2000 issue of Al Akhbar Newspaper of Cairo, […]

The following is a 19 January 2000 EOHR press release: Cairo 19/1/2000 A NEW ATTACK AGAINST CIVIL SOCIETY Governor of Cairo issues a decree to close the EOHR newsletter (Hukouk Al-Insan) Press release In a sudden development, the EOHR has learned today, January 19, 2000 through notification no. 1484 / year 1999, issued by Misr […]

**Updates IFEX alerts of 16 August and 21 April 1999** (CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: For Immediate Release December 6, 1999 CPJ Welcomes Release of Egyptian Journalists, Renews Call to End Criminal Prosecutions New York, N.Y., December 6, 1999 – Three Egyptian journalists jailed for libel in August were freed late […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 9 October 1999 EOHR press release: Cairo, 9 October 1999 Old demands renewed at the beginning of a new stage At the beginning of a new presidential term for President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak and the formation of a new government which will take Egyptian society to a new century, […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a 16 August 1999 letter to President Mubarak, RSF protested the 14 August sentencing of three journalists to two years in prison with labour for libelling Deputy Prime Minister Youssef Waly. RSF expressed its “deep concern over this conviction” and “urged the President to secure the release of the journalists”. In 1998, […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 14 August 1999 EOHR press release: **Updates IFEX alert of 21 April 1999** Press Release Two years imprisonment for journalists The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) is seriously concerned by the rulings issued by the South Cairo Criminal Court today, 14 August, in the case brought by Minister […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is the text of a 28 June 1999 CPJ briefing: On July 1, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will meet in Washington, D.C., with President Clinton-the Egyptian leader’s third such visit to the White House in the last four years. The scheduled meeting comes at a time when Egyptian authorities have stepped […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is protesting the sentence of three and a half years’ imprisonment with hard labour which was pronounced by a court in Cairo on Hussein al-Mataani. al-Mataani was arrested in May 1999 for setting up a journalists’ union without government permission. Convicted of fraud, impersonating a journalist and establishing a union without state […]

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) – The following is a 15 June 1999 ARTICLE 19 letter to European Trade Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan regarding the proposed Egypt – European Union trade agreement: Sir Leon Brittan European Trade Commissioner European Commission 200 rue de la Loi B-1049 Brussels 15 June 1999 Dear Sir Leon ARTICLE 19 is concerned that […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – On 10 May 1999, state prosecutors charged five journalists from the bi-weekly opposition newspaper “Al-Sha’b” with libeling the head of the Al-Muhandes Bank in Egypt, Hussein Sabbour. The indicted journalists include editor in chief Magdy Hussein, managing editor Talaat Rumeih, deputy of the board of directors Adel Hussein, journalist Amer Abdel Moneim, and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is worried by the systematic use of libel action undertaken to sue journalists in an attempt to suppress freedom of expression. **For background on previous cases against Magdi Hussein see IFEX alerts of 7 July, 3 July, 1 June, 30 March and 25 February 1998, 19 September, 10 September and 28 January […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 29 February 1999 EOHR press release: Press Release Closure of a newspaper Governmental intervention to ban Sawt Al-Ummah newspaper The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) is deeply alarmed by the Higher Press Council’s decree canceling the license of Sawt Al-Ummah newspaper, published by Sawt Al-Ummah Publishing and Journalism […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is a 15 February 1999 EOHR press release: Press Release Galal Arif: another journalist under threat of imprisonment The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received with deep concern the decision of the Higher State Security Prosecution, on 14 February 1999, referring Galal Arif, journalist at Al-Arabi, the newspaper of the […]

(EOHR/IFEX) – The following is an EOHR press release: Preventive detention threatens journalists again The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has followed with deep concern the questioning by the State Security Prosecution of Abbas Al-Tarabily, editor-in-chief of the Al-Wafd newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Al-Wafd opposition party, and Mohamed Abdel-Aleem, a journalist with the […]