Egypt Researcher at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) - Brussels Office
Joined March 2011
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@UNHumanRights to #Egypt:
➡️Free @matsda2sh journalists & investigate #torture allegations
➡️Re-open @MadaMasr and end judicial harassment of @Linaattalah
End assault on press freedom incl. targeting, persecution & harassment of independent journalists
#Journalism is not a crime
#Egypt: Widening assaults on press freedom by the authorities, including targeting, persecution and harassment of independent journalists, must end immediately.
We call on Egypt to end all forms of harassment of journalists and media outlets, and to respect and fulfil the right to freedom of expression, including the right to information. Journalists must be able to carry out their essential work free from intimidation and reprisals.
ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-…
@MounirSatouri Chair of @EP_HumanRights condemns closure of @MadaMasr in #Egypt, prosecution of @Linaattalah and detention of @matsda2sh journalists.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#الصحافة_مش_جريمة
🔴 Press freedom
At the opening of @EP_HumanRights meeting today, chair @MounirSatouri strongly condemned the closure of two independent media 👇
📌 Novaya Gazeta in Russia, on 9 November
📌 Mada Masr in Egypt
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#FreeMadaMasr
Another escalation against the very few remaining voices of independent journalism in #Egypt
Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was fined LE3 million by the New Cairo Misdemeanor Court, which convicted her on charges of managing an unlicensed website, issuing an order for the website’s closure. Attalah was taken into custody after the issue of the ruling.
Tuesday’s session at the ninth circuit of the New Cairo Misdemeanor Court, presided over by judge Mohamed Mubarak, was temporarily suspended for deliberations after Attalah’s defense counsel requested time to review the case file.
After the court returned from deliberations, the judge ordered the courtroom cleared of everyone except Attalah and her defense counsel, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights’ executive director Hossam Bahgat, who was also present, told Mada Masr. The room then filled with plainclothes officers and guards, with a National Security Agency officer in attendance, he added.
The presiding judge and a Supreme State Security Prosecution representative returned to the session and the judge announced that the court has decided to stand by its rejection of all the procedural arguments presented by the defense, including requests to bring in any documentation or hear any witnesses.
The judge then asked the defense team to present its plea. The counsel insisted that it would not submit a plea as long as its requests were unanswered by the court.
The judge then abruptly asked for a lawyer unknown to any member of the defense counsel to be brought in, “in a move that astonished all those present,” said Bahgat, and announced that the court decided to appoint a lawyer for Attalah.
At that point, all members of the defense counsel cried out to reject the court’s appointment of a lawyer when the eight chosen lawyers were present. Attalah herself spoke to say she did not accept the court-appointed lawyer acting on her behalf, an objection the judge refused to have recorded in the session’s minutes.
"In an even more shocking move,” said Bahgat, the judge himself began to log down the requests of the court-appointed lawyer, without the lawyer having said a word. The judge then read out the conviction amid shouts and protests from the defense counsel.
The judge sentenced Attalah to the maximum possible penalty: a LE3 million fine, the closure of Mada Masr’s website and the confiscation of its property.
Security personnel then surrounded Attalah, lifted her off the ground and took her out of the courtroom, where she remains in custody in the courthouse.
Hundreds of postcards from lawyers at #OVBCongress sent to Hoda Abdelmoniem.
Her daughter Gehad Khaled, accepted them during the final plenary session. Hoda is now spending her 8th year behind bars with trials still ongoing.
Her next hearing is this Sunday, May 10th.
#FreeHoda
#Solidarity with Dr Aida
I will be following closely the situation of prominent WHRD & psychiatrist Aida Seif El-Dawla who is to be questioned Sunday by #Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution in a new case against her with unknown charges or reasons, threatening her important work in support of torture victims @PMEgypt_Geneva
ALT The flag of Egypt blowing in the wind
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Adoption by @Europarl_EN yesterday of the unacceptable legislative proposal establishing an EU list of safe countries of origin (SCO), undermining the #right to #asylum & including manifestly unsafe countries like #Egypt & #Tunisia with abysmal #HumanRights, #RuleOfLaw situations
Contrary to @EU_Commission claims, people deported to #Egypt face a real risk of serious harm - death sentences, unfair trials, #torture, enforced disappearances, no accountability…
and of persecution on many grounds: opinions, gender, sexual orientation, religion...
#Egypt must immediately release human rights defender #HodaAbdelmonem (66), who faces a 3rd trial in December on the same recycled terrorism charges after 7+ years of reprisals & medical neglect.
Her life is at risk, #FreeHoda
Full joint statement🔗 cihrs.org/egypt-human-rights…
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Lawyer Hoda Abdel-Moneim has been imprisoned in Egypt for 7 years.
Her health condition is now extremely critical and threatens her life.
As Chair of @EP_HumanRights, I renew my call to @AlsisiOfficial to release Hoda and the other detained lawyers.
cihrs.org/urgent-appeal-on-c…
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MEPs @Tineke_Strik, @MounirSatouri & 32 others in letter to @vonderleyen and @eucopresident:
No red carpet for Egyptian President Sisi without #HumanRights, #RuleOfLaw & #democracy improvements in #Egypt!
#EU should push for reforms at tomorrow's summit.
The EU promised Egypt €7.4 billion in exchange for human rights improvements. Sadly, we see no change so far.
Don't roll out the red carpet for Al-Sisi, but demand change during Wednesday's summit: No human rights improvements, no EU money.
That's our message to @vonderleyen👇
Lawyer Khaled Ali: a presidential pardon has been announced for Alaa Abdelfattah in #Egypt !
#FreeAlaa
#FreeThemAll
#Egypt: The Government must immediately stop the practice of “rotation” that allows critics to be held arbitrarily and for prolonged periods, & release all those who have been subjected to it.
➡️ ohchr.org/en/press-releases/…
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@EP_HumanRights
@MounirSatouri
DROI: M. #Tadjadit a été condamné pour avoir exercé sa liberté d’expression et d’opinion donc il devrait être libéré, comme les autres #défenseurs des droits humains injustement condamnés en #Algérie!
Liberté d’expression: #PasUnCrime
#مانيش_راضي
"It is clear that Britain has not, in fact, done everything it possibly can to change the #Egypt-ian government’s mind. It must now do so."
#FreeAlaa
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Time is running out
#FreeAlaa
#FreeThemAll
I join other UN experts in urging Egypt to release activist & blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah from arbitrary detention under repressive security laws
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"Release my son or I will collapse.”
On hunger strike for 120 days, bereaved #Egyptian mother #Laila_Souif recounts the extent of the violations against her son #AlaaAbdelFattah, the extension of his unjust imprisonment, and the abuse & retaliation he and his family were subjected to. Soueif is determined to continue her strike and considers her life the only remaining pressure mechanism she has after the family has exhausted all means of demanding her son's release over the past 10 years.
@cfjusticeorg #Now
#UPR48 #UPR #FreeThemAll
#تجوع_ليحيا
Urgency resolution adopted by @Europarl_EN on #FreedomOfSpeech in #Algeria & case of Boualem Sansal
➡️calling 4 release of all #prisoners of opinion incl. Sansal, @tadjadi_mohamed, Abdelwakil Blamm; respect rule of law, judicial independence
➡️denouncing attacks on media freedom
#عاجل_الآن📢:#البرلمان_الأوروبي يوافق بأغلبية الأصوات ع قرار بشأن #حرية_التعبير في #الجزائر.
ترجمة للقرار⬅️cihrs.org/wp-content/uploads…
القرار شدد ع الإفراج عن #سجناء_الرأي، تعديل #قانون_العقوبات، ضمان #حرية_الصحافة وإحراز تقدم متواصل في #حقوق_الإنسان كشرط لأي دعم مالي أوروبي للجزائر.
#تادجيت_محمد #عبدالله_الوكيل #بوعلام_صنصال
#حرية_التعبير #ليست_جريمة
#الحرية_للجميع
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➡️Calling on Algeria to review repressive laws + Penal Code articles restricting freedoms
➡️ Calling on EU to convey concerns & renew Partnership w/ Algeria based on substantial #HumanRights progress
See full text➡️europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc…
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Le Parlement européen adopte résolution sur #Algerie, cas de B. Sansal et liberté d'#expression, appelant à
➡️#libération des #prisonniers d'opinion dont @tadjadi_mohamed, Abdelwakil Blamm
➡liberté de la presse
➡️respect Etat de droit + indépendance judiciaire
@CIHRS_Alerts
#عاجل_الآن📢:#البرلمان_الأوروبي يوافق بأغلبية الأصوات ع قرار بشأن #حرية_التعبير في #الجزائر.
ترجمة للقرار⬅️cihrs.org/wp-content/uploads…
القرار شدد ع الإفراج عن #سجناء_الرأي، تعديل #قانون_العقوبات، ضمان #حرية_الصحافة وإحراز تقدم متواصل في #حقوق_الإنسان كشرط لأي دعم مالي أوروبي للجزائر.
#تادجيت_محمد #عبدالله_الوكيل #بوعلام_صنصال
#حرية_التعبير #ليست_جريمة
#الحرية_للجميع
UN Special Rapporteur @MaryLawlorhrds raises concerns again about misuse of #counterterrorism legislation to repress #humanrightsdefenders in #Egypt & practice of recycling / rotation of cases to keep them behind bars
#FreeHoda
#FreeAlaa
#FreeThemAll
Press Release: #Egypt persists in routinely misusing counter-terrorism legislation & recycling criminal charges against human rights defenders @PMEgypt_Geneva
srdefenders.org/egypt-specia…
The lawyer Hoda Abdelmonem has been arbitrarily jailed since 2018. The Egyptian regime is keeping her in detention despite the end of her sentence.
As President of @EP_HumanRights, I call for her immediate release.
My statement ⤵️
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/p…
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