On August 25 Bahey Eldin Hassan, a prominent Egyptian human rights defender, and director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), was sentenced to fifteen years in prison by an Egyptian court. The court found him guilty of arbitrary charges such as “disseminating false news that could undermine public security and public benefit through…
The Arab Watch Coalition (AWC) published an article questioning the accountability of the International Financial Corporation (IFC) in regards to the projects in which it invests. Specifically, it questions whether the IFC upheld its stated ideals of investing in projects that have positive development impacts in local communities when it invested in two Egyptian cement…
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) have denounced the recent decision by Cairo’s Criminal Court’s to arbitrarily place human rights defenders Zyad al-Elaimy and Ramy Shaath, along with 11 others human rights activists, on Egypt’s “terrorist list” for the next…
Since anti-corruption protests began on September 20, 2019, the government of Egypt has arrested more than 3,120 people, including respected civil society leaders and the lawyers defending them. On October 12, 2019, armed plainclothes officers kidnapped Egyptian activist and journalist Esraa Abdelfattah in an escalating crackdown on civil society leaders. Abdelfattah is detained under investigation for “disseminating false news”…