Joint Statement: Human Rights Organizations Condemn the Escalating Use of Summons and Excessive Bail Before the Supreme State Security Prosecution

Seven Human Rights Organizations: The Summoning of Aida Seif El-Dawla Is Another Episode of the Crackdown on Human Rights Work and Freedom of Opinion and Expression

Seven Human Rights Organizations: The Summoning of Aida Seif El-Dawla Is Another Episode of the Crackdown on Human Rights Work and Freedom of Opinion and Expression

Egypt: Expansion of summoning human rights defenders and imposing high financial bail to silence independent voices

The undersigned organisations, including the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), condemn the expansion of the summoning human rights and political figures for investigation before the Supreme State Security Prosecution: Security measures and vague charges aimed at silencing independent voices. 16 February…

Human rights organizations condemn the expansion in summoning human rights and political figures for investigation before the Supreme State Security Prosecution: Security measures and vague charges aimed at silencing independent voices

The signatories consider the summoning of Dr. Aida Seif al-Dawla, a co-founder of the El Nadeem Center, two weeks after the arrest of Ahmed Douma and his release on bail, to be “a new practice in a systematic security policy aimed at hollowing out human rights and political work” The organizations condemn the expansion of “financial drain” measures against politicians and human rights defenders through releasing them on high financial bail inste…