Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)

(HRinfo/IFEX) – “The systematic campaign launched by the Egyptian government against opposition candidates and the Muslim Brotherhood to prevent them from running in the next local elections in Egypt should not divert attention from the increase in the number of prisoners of conscience,” as stated on 9 March 2008 by HRinfo. Dr. Ayman Nour who […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The following is a 5 March 2008 joint statement by HRinfo, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and 31 other organisations: 34 International and Arabian Human Rights Organisations declare: The document of organizing space transmission is invalid through its form and content The undersigned […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – On 3 March 2008, one year after blogger Kareem Amer was sent to prison, HRinfo stated that the campaign launched by some independent newspapers has proven that Kareem Amer is innocent of the charge for which he was convicted: insulting the president. Amer was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment over an article that […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The El Arish Partial Court issued a decision on 16 February 2008 to free the novelist and activist Musaad Suleiman Hassan, a.k.a. Musaad Abu Fagr. This is the third such court ruling within a week. This latest ruling follows the 14 February decision of the Public Prosecutor in El Arish, North Sinai, to […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The following is an abbreviated version of a joint statement by HRinfo and several other Egyptian human rights organisations: Human rights organisations consider Abo Fagr a prisoner of conscience Egyptian human rights organisations denounced today the continued imprisonment of political blogger and activist Mosaad Abo Fagr, the head of the movement “We want […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – On 6 February 2008, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) stated that the new website censorship law the Kuwaiti government intends to present to the parliament is contradictory to the dominant trend in most democratic countries, where an increase of freedom of expression, especially on the internet, is recommended. An article […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – In a court ruling restoring hope in the hearts of all defenders of freedom of opinion and expression in Egypt and the world, the Administrative Judicial Court issued a decision on 29 December 2007 in Case No. 15575 / 61, in which Judge Abdul Fattah Murad sought a ban on 51 Egyptian websites. […]

(HRinfo/IFEX) – The following is a joint statement by HRinfo and 10 other organizations: The inquisition is back again! Two Egyptians sentenced to 6 months in prison in Sudan Cairo, December 17, 2007 – The organizations signing this statement condemn the court sentence issued on 16 December 2007 against two Egyptian citizens in Sudan charged […]