Aida Seif

The undersigned organizations warn that prominent opposition politician Dr. Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh will soon meet the grim fate of former president Mohamed Morsi, unless there is immediate intervention to put an end to pervasive medical neglect in Egypt’s prisons; a practice that has become, in effect, a prolonged death sentence inflicted in retaliation for political opposition. As a result of the Egyptian authorities’ deliberate denial of vital medical treatment, Aboul-Fotouh’s health has sharply declined and he now…

The undersigned rights organizations demand the immediate, unconditional release of all persons detained in the dawn security raids of June 25 and 26, in which at least eight were arrested including politicians, journalists, human rights defenders, and businessmen. The arrests aim to stifle an emerging civil, secular coalition of political parties, movements, independent political figures, and youth seeking to form an alliance to run in next year’s parliamentary election; and are yet another manifestation of the Egyptian…

On February 9, 2017, a police force from the Azbekiya Police Department, reportedly with a representative from the Ministry of Health, closed the Nadim Center clinic with red wax. Since then the wax has melted leaving shreds of tape. Since then, also, we await a court decision in a case that was filed by our lawyer the following day contesting the closure. Although the clinic is closed, providing rehabilitation and support did not stop for a moment even during the closure period. For El Nadim team, the support and…

Joint Statement  The undersigned organisations express their deep concern over the children standing before trial in Egypt in the case known to the media as the Three Pyramids Hotel case, which is due for issuing a verdict on June 22, 2019. The Egyptain authorities are referring the papers of Kareem Hemeda Ali Hemeda, a juvenile defendant in case no. 45/2016 of State Security, to the mufti (Which is a final step prior to implementing executions) The authorities arrested the 17-year-old from his place of residence on 1st of…

Joint Statement The death of former president Mohamed Morsi exposes one of the Egyptian government’s cruelest forms of political retaliation: prolonged medical neglect in prison with the aim of inflicting a slow death upon opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Morsi is not the first and will likely not be the last victim: other prisoners face a similar demise as long as there remains no oversight in Egyptian prisons, enabling systematic and severe violations including torture, the denial of even minimally adequate…

The undersigned rights organizations call on international organizations to monitor the upcoming referendum to amend the Egyptian constitution; if approved, the amendments will grant unilateral authority to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi by expanding presidential term limits together with eliminating judicial independence .  In its campaign to ensure the amendments’ passage in the referendum scheduled for April 19-22, the Egyptian state has trampled upon all guarantees of a free, impartial referendum; completely denying…

The undersigned rights organizations condemn the execution of nine young men on Wednesday February 20th following an unjust, politicized trial rife with torture and due process violations. We further reject the Egyptian government’s politicization of capital punishment; particularly its insistence on swiftly staging executions following terrorist incidents, likely to divert public attention from its continued failure in the “war on terrorism.” At least 15 people have been executed by the Egyptian government in the month of…

Joint Statement With President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi recently issuing a decree to amend Law 70 of 2017 regulating civic organizations, the undersigned rights organizations emphasize the futility of any attempt to revise this fundamentally flawed law: a complete redrafting of the law, on the basis of civil society independence, is required. A simple revision of the law can address neither its irreconcilability with both Egypt’s constitution and international obligations under human rights conventions, nor its inimicalness to a…

The undersigned organizations denounce the ruling on September 24, 2018 to uphold the death sentences of 20 defendants in connection with the 2013 attack on the Kerdasa police station. Egypt’s use of the capital punishment has been escalating at an unprecedented rate, with defendants slated for execution following brazenly unfair trials failing to meet minimum due process standards. The undersigned reaffirm our rejection of the death penalty and renew our calls for an immediate moratorium on mass death sentences in Egypt,…

August 15, 2018 Five years after the violent dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nadha sit-ins, there has neither been accountability for perpetrators nor justice for victims and survivors. At least 900 people were killed and 1492 were injured, according to rights reports.  Not a single person has been held responsible for the brutal extrajudicial killings committed on August 14, 2013 or the following week. The undersigned organizations unequivocally reject the judicial processes connected to the events of those days,…