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By UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office – Restrictions on human rights in Egypt continued in the second half of 2016, including growing restrictions on civil society. We raised our concerns [...]

By POMED –  Egyptian authorities shut down the El-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture today after police sealed off its entrance with wax and arrested [...]

A Statement by Coptic Solidarity – February 6, 2017 President Trump now has a golden opportunity to reset US relations with Egypt making human rights a high priority while simultaneously [...]

By World Tribune – Another in a series of last-minute executive orders issued by U.S. President Barack Obama is being slammed by critics as “a deal with the devil.” Obama on Jan. 13 eased a [...]

By MEMRI – In an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf wrote about the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act recently passed by the U.S. administration. [...]

By Amnesty International – The Zeinhom Criminal Court’s decision to freeze the personal and organizational bank accounts of a group of leading and award-winning human rights lawyers and [...]

By EU Spokesperson – The decision taken by an Egyptian Court to freeze the assets of a number of prominent Egyptian Human rights defenders will directly affect a wide range of civil society [...]

By CIHRS – Independent Human Rights organizations in Egypt pay the price under a president that considers Egyptians unworthy of dignity, freedom, and equality.  On September 17, the Cairo [...]

By Amira El-Fekki – Daily News Egypt –  The NGO staged a protest Saturday demanding that victims of sectarian attacks be granted their rights. A culture of religious discrimination is [...]

By The Economist, From the print edition – Violence is only one of the problems faced by Christians in Egypt IT BEGAN with an argument over money, says a resident of Karam village in Minya. [...]