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Egypt s Crackdown on EIPR: Instrumentalizing Counterterrorism to Silence Dissent

Egypt’s Crackdown on EIPR: Instrumentalizing Counterterrorism to Silence Dissent Egyptian Central Security Forces in Cairo, 2012. (Jonathan Rashad, https://flic.kr/p/bGdYSH; CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/) On Nov. 3, a group of foreign ambassadors and diplomats representing 12 countries and the European Commission gathered at the offices of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The group was present to discuss the state of human rights and civil society in Egypt following a request made by one of the countries. As a preeminent independent civil society organization that has been legally operating in the country since 2002, EIPR is widely respected and sought after for its knowledge production, advocacy and litigation on key issues from health to the economy to criminal justice. The meeting which took place within the mandate of the foreign diplomatic corps’ engagement with Egyptian stakeholders was not the first of its type and

The U S sends Egypt billions in aid Fearing extinction, rights activists hope Biden will act

The U S sends Egypt billions in aid Fearing extinction, rights activists hope Biden will act
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Fearing extinction, Egypt s human rights activists pin hopes on Biden

The U.S. sends Egypt billions in aid. Fearing extinction, rights activists hope Biden will act. Saphora Smith and Yasmine Salam and Abigail Williams © Provided by NBC News Jess Kelly said she knew her husband, Karim Ennarah, was not OK as soon as he spoke to her on the telephone from Egypt. Ennarah, 37, a human rights campaigner, had called late Nov. 16 to warn her that police had been at his mother’s house in Cairo looking to arrest him, she told NBC News. “He cried a few times, and said he was sorry that he hadn’t tried to leave sooner,” she said, speaking from London.

Egypt s Sisi readies for a chillier reception in Washington

Egypt s Sisi readies for a chillier reception in Washington
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Dancing with the devil: how the EU is complicit in Egypt s brutal regime

URL copied to clipboard In February 2020, as he arrived back in Cairo to visit family, Patrick Zaky, a Masters student at Bologna University, was arrested by Egyptian authorities. Zaky, a researcher of gender rights for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), was detained on charges including “spreading false news” and “an incitement to protest”. His lawyer, Wael Ghally, claimed he was “beaten and tortured”. Ten months on, he is still being held in prison, awaiting his pre-trial hearing. Then, after a meeting with 13 European ambassadors and diplomats on the state of human rights in Egypt, three more of EIPR’s staff were arrested between 15 and 19 November. EIPR’s administrative manager, Mohamed Basheer, its executive director, Gasser Abdel Razek, and its criminal justice director, Karim Ennarah, were accused of “terrorism” and “spreading false news”.

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