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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Aug 11

21 NGOs denounce the ongoing judicial and security harassment of Mada Masr & Lina Attalah after new charges over reporting on Badr 3 Prison abuses. Call to drop all charges, unblock sites & free jailed journalists.

📄joint statement: shorturl.at/tqLeB
#Egypt #PressFreedom

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Aug 5

🔴 200 days after Abdulrahman Yusuf’s forcible return to the UAE, his fate remains unknown.

27 rights groups say his incommunicado detention amounts to enforced disappearance and may expose him to torture.
They call for his immediate release.

#FreeAbdulrahman
Full statement: shorturl.at/qU9tS

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jul 31

Mutaz El Fegiery @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social joined NCHR consultations with EU & OHCHR reps, calling for the release of political prisoners, an end to reprisals, and a transparent mechanism for civil society dialogue.
#Egypt #HumanRights #CivilSociety

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jul 10

🛑 Joint Statement | No Justice Without Accountability: Human rights organizations call for the dismissal of Egypt’s Minister of Transport and an independent investigation into the Regional Ring Road accidents.

📄 full joint statement: shorturl.at/0WJyt

#Egypt #HumanRights #Accountability

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jul 2

🔴 At #HRC59, Samar Elhussieny said Egypt uses bureaucratic erasure to strip HRDs of legal existence and block their return, paralysis, not law. She called for the end of these abuses and for ensuring the right to return without fear.

#Egypt #HumanRights

@selhussieny.bsky.social

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jul 2

🔴 An oral statement at the UN Human Rights Council today by the Egyptian Human Rights Forum and Digital Democracy highlights Egypt’s transnational repression against HRDs abroad.

📺 Watch: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1r...
#Egypt #HumanRights #UN #TransnationalRepression

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 25

Moataz El Fegiery, Vice-President of @EuroMedRights and Co-founder&President of @EgyptianHRForum, speaks at today’s solidarity stand in Brussels: “The EU cannot remain silent while human rights defenders are being imprisoned and silenced across the Arab region.”
#FreeThemAll #FreeAlaa #MENAdefenders

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 25

📢 Happening now in front of the European Parliament in Brussels: A solidarity stand calling for the release of all detained human rights defenders in the MENA region.

We urge @UN_HRC and the #EU to take immediate action.
#FreeThemAll #FreeAlaa #MENAdefenders

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 25

تدعو ٢٦ منظمة حقوقية، الحكومة المصرية إلى وقف حملتها الممنهجة لاستهداف الصحفيين المنفيين، ومن بينهم بسمة مصطفى، الصحفية الاستقصائية، التي تعرضت لمضايقات وتهديدات في عدة دول، منها ألمانيا وسويسرا ولبنان، بسبب عملها الصحفي.

🔗 البيان الكامل: shorturl.at/oUr4a
#TransnationalRepression

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨 Egypt: President Sisi bears direct responsibility for the life of #LeilaSoueif, now on her 270th day of hunger strike in protest of the continued arbitrary detention of her son, #AlaaAbdelFattah, despite the end of his sentence.
📄 Full statement: shorturl.at/7ZkLr
#FreeAlaa #SaveLaila

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨 مصر: السيسي يتحمل المسئولية المباشرة عن حياة #ليلى_سويف، التي تدخل يومها الـ270 من الإضراب عن الطعام، احتجاجًا على استمرار احتجاز ابنها #علاء_عبد_الفتاح تعسفًا رغم انتهاء مدة حكمه.

📄 رابط البيان: shorturl.at/tle9W
#FreeAlaa #SaveLaila #انقذوا_ليلي #FreeThemAll

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 23

🗓 الأربعاء 25 يونيو 2025
🕛 من 12:00 إلى 13:00
📍 ساحة لوكسمبورغ – بروكسل
ندعو @UN_HRC و#الاتحاد_الأوروبي للتحرك الفوري.

#FreeThemAll #HumanRights #MENAdefenders #FreeAlaa

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 وقفة تضامنية مع المدافعين والمدافعات عن حقوق الإنسان المعتقلين/ات في المنطقة العربية
ندعوكم للانضمام إلينا أمام البرلمان الأوروبي ببروكسل للمطالبة بالإفراج عن جميع المعتقلين/ات.
@egyptianhrforum.bsky.social m | @gulfcentre4hr.bsky.social | @fidh_eu | @fidh_en | @HuMENAorg

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 23

We urge the EU and UN Human Rights Council to take urgent action.

Freedom for all detained defenders.
#FreeThemAll #MENAdefenders

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 Join us in solidarity with detained human rights defenders (HRDs) and women human rights defenders (WHRDs) across the MENA region.
Organized by Egyptian Human Rights Forum, Gulf Centre for Human Rights, FIDH, and HuMENA.
📍 In front of the EU Parliament, Brussels
🗓 Wednesday, 25 June
🕛 12:00–13:00

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 17

🔴 Joint statement by 32 human rights organizations
Sharp rise in executions in Saudi Arabia for non-lethal drug offenses—targeting Egyptians, Ethiopians, and Somalis—amid unfair trials and trafficking-related concerns.

📄 Read the full statement: shorturl.at/MZNFu

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 17

🔴 بيان مشترك من ٣٢ منظمة حقوقية:
عشرات المصريين والصوماليين والإثيوبيين يواجهون خطر الإعدام الوشيك في السعودية على خلفية قضايا مخدرات غير مميتة، في ظل غياب المحاكمة العادلة وشبهات باتجار بالبشر.

نطالب بوقف الإعدامات فورًا ومراجعة الأحكام

📄 البيان الكامل: shorturl.at/Op1qF
#DeathPenalty

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FairSquare @fairsq.bsky.social · Jun 4

"Our hearts are breaking to see our dear friend Laila Soueif on the edge of life and death". Richard Ratcliffe and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the Independent today. www.independent.co.uk/voices/laila...

I went on hunger strike to save my wife – why won’t Starmer help Laila Soueif?

While Richard was sitting hungry and cold on the London pavement, he had a visit from Keir Starmer, then leader of the opposition. Days later, he called Nazanin – on house arrest in Tehran – and commi...

www.independent.co.uk

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 4

🔴 Joint Statement | Rights groups call for the immediate and unconditional release of Ibrahim Metwally

Detained for 7 years solely for seeking the truth for his disappeared son & engaging with UN mechanisms.
Anti-terror laws are being misused to punish peaceful activism.

#FreeIbrahimMetwally

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 3

“Egyptian consulates systematically withhold passports, birth certificates, and ID cards—trapping critics and their children abroad.”

— Abdulrahman Ayyash

#StatelessByForce #TransnationalRepression

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 3

“In July 2022, I posted a political thread. The next day, my father was abducted and held for 4 months. Prosecutors didn’t ask about him—they asked about me.”

— Abdulrahman Ayyash

#Egypt #HumanRights #StopTNR

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 3

“Authoritarian regimes no longer stop at their borders. They follow us into classrooms, courtrooms, and even our family kitchens.”

— Abdulrahman Ayyash at the European Parliament

#TransnationalRepression #TNR #Egypt #EU

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 3

🛑 "If 'Never Again' is to mean anything—the EU must act now to protect those who have already lost everything, and ask only for the right to live in dignity."
— Samar Elhussieny
#NoSafeHarbor #EU #Asylum #TransnationalRepression

egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 3

🇪🇬 “This is not about isolated cases. It’s a systematic campaign of transnational repression targeting Egyptian HRDs in exile—through bureaucracy, surveillance, and fear.”

— Samar Elhussieny
#Egypt #HumanRights #EU

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egyptianhrforum.bsky.social @egyptianhrforum.bsky.social · Jun 3

🔴 "Leila Soueif teaches us what it means to love in a time of brutality—and to turn that love into political courage."

— Samar Elhussieny at the European Parliament today.
#FreeAlaa #LeilaSoueif #TransnationalRepression

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