Articles by Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)
UN Human Rights Council to investigate Israel’s rights violations against Palestinians
In a historic resolution that follows years of work by Palestinians and human rights defenders around the world, the right’s body moves to investigate Israel’s grave human rights violations against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.
Egypt’s human rights abuses highlighted in open letter to European Bank president
IFEX joins over 20 organisations in highlighting how Egypt’s worsening rule of law and human rights abuses represent non-compliance with the mandate of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Report: MENA governments exploit pandemic to deepen repression
In the guise of confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities in MENA have censored online information, suppressed criticism, and passed measures hostile to rights and freedoms, says a new report from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS).
Algeria: Policies silencing ‘Hirak’ activists must end
Dozens of “Hirak” pro-democracy activists including journalist Khaled Drareni, are released as the movement takes to the street to mark its second anniversary. Rights groups call on the international community to urge Algerian authorities to end policies aimed at silencing peaceful free expression and assembly.
Egypt: Imprisoned journalist Solafa Magdy subjected to grave violations in prison
Rights groups in Egypt call on authorities to investigate reports of physical assaults, acts of harassment, and abuse against detained journalist Solafa Magdy by police and staff at Qanater women’s prison.
Palestinian free speech and human rights work threatened by deliberate anti-semitic labeling
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies says recent efforts by the US State Department to label the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-semitic threatens to silence the work of Palestinian human rights defenders and organizations that monitor, document, and criticize Israel’s systematic human rights violations.
Egypt: Human rights workers arrested for meeting Western diplomats must be released
Civil society organizations condemn the escalated targeting of human rights workers in the country after authorities arrested several members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) in retaliation for meeting with senior Western diplomats, and call for the immediate release of EIPR’s director, Gasser Abdel Razek and his colleagues who face punitive treatment in detention.
Algeria: Rights organisations call for the immediate release of critically-ill activist Abdallah Benaoum
Jailed solely for expressing critical views on the government’s crackdown on the Hirak movement, detained human rights activist Abdallah Benaoum’s health remains in critical condition, say human rights organisations who call for his immediate and unconditional release.