News & Reports

By POMED – On September 22, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The meeting came [...]

By: Al-Monitor – While the Egyptian government says the historic initiative is a good faith effort to set a path forward, critics say the strategy is primarily designed to quiet [...]

By Al-Monitor – The report said the National Security Agency threatened human rights defenders with arrests and prosecutions, and questioned them about their political activity on social [...]

By RSF – Responding to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s announcement of a five-year plan for improving respect for human rights, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says Sisi should [...]

By The New York Times — Within days of each other, the United States and Egypt announced moves this week that, for the first time in years, would put human rights on the agenda in Egypt, a [...]

By Mada Masr – After 19 months in remand detention, researcher Patrick George Zaki was referred on September 13 to trial before an emergency court on charges of “spreading false news at [...]

By POLITICO – The Biden administration has decided it will hold back some — but not most — of $300 million in conditioned military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns, a U.S. official [...]

By The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights Press Release The undersigned organisations condemn the decision of the State Security Supreme Prosecution (SSSP) to indict Patrick Zaki, the [...]

House Media Center – WASHINGTON – Today (Sept., 9), Congressman Lieu led a letter with Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) and nine Members of Congress urging the Biden-Harris [...]

By: The Wall Street Journal – The Biden Administration and other democracies have been beseeching the triumphant Taliban not to behave like they did when they last ran Afghanistan before [...]