Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

Three human rights organisations based in the Middle East and North Africa organised an event at the UN Human Rights Council on 12 September 2013 to highlight the ongoing crackdown on rights defenders in the Gulf region.

News emerged from prison that some of those jailed in the UAE 94 case began a hunger strike on 31 July, with 20 detainees participating to protest the mistreatment they continue to be subjected to while in detention.

The Egyptian military’s storming of two Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in Cairo has left hundreds of citizens dead and thousands seriously injured.

People are encouraged to join around 200 organisations supporting the adoption of 13 basic principles applying existing human rights law to modern digital surveillance.

An attack by Egyptian police forces on supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood left 80 dead, according to official reports. Rights groups demanded the dismissal of the interior minister, and called for those responsible to be held accountable.

The obstinate refusal of the presidency, the Muslim Brotherhood, and their partisans to respond to the demands of the Egyptian people has been posing a grave threat to civil peace, say local rights organisations.
This statement, signed by three IFEX members in the region, was issued shortly before the Egyptian military announced that Morsi had been ousted.

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi’s rule, 20 Egyptian rights organisations call on Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to respect the principles of the democratic process that brought them to power in the first place.

Egyptian human rights organisations have joined together to condemn the sentencing of Egyptian lawyer and activist Karem Saber to five years in prison for allegedly insulting religion.