Release Patrick Zaki
By Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights – We ask the Public Prosecution to do what is necessary and expected in these exceptional circumstances: release Patrick and the other remand [...]
Egypt: Overcrowded prisons will become epicenters of coronavirus outbreak unless some detainees immediately released
By Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies – The signatory human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian government’s reckless refusal to release select groups of detainees for the sake [...]
Egypt forces Guardian journalist to leave after coronavirus story
By The Guardian – Egyptian authorities have forced a Guardian journalist to leave the country after she reported on a scientific study that said Egypt was likely to have many more [...]
As Islamists Spread Conspiracies, ISIS Seeks to Exploit Coronavirus Crisis
The Investigative Project on Terrorism News – In last week’s Islamic State (ISIS) newsletter, the group referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as divine intervention intended to inflict [...]
Muslim Brotherhood and other Extremists Exploit Coronavirus to Promote Terrorism, Hate
by Bassam Tawil – Gatestone Institute – According to the report, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS have, through a number of fatwas, called on Muslims to produce “human biological [...]
A Statement from Patrick Zaki’s Family
By Patrick Zaki’s Family – We do not know anything about Patrick for the past two weeks and we demand his immediate release as he has asthma. Today marks the 45th day since Patrick was [...]
Prisons in the time of COVID-19
By Hadeer El-Mahdawy – Mada Masr On Wednesday afternoon, rights activist Mona Seif headed to the Cabinet building in downtown Cairo with her mother, academic Laila Soueif, and her aunt, [...]
Coptic Solidarity Update: UN Advocacy Trip
This update was sent to Coptic Solidarity’s supporters on March 16, 2020. I’m writing to you from Geneva, where I arrived last Wednesday and headed to the UN as planned. Most of you have [...]
Coptic Solidarity Speech for UN Human Rights Council: Prisoners of Conscience in Egypt
By Coptic Solidarity – Lindsay Griffin of Coptic Solidarity was scheduled to give this speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week, but the session was cancelled due to COVID [...]
