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Egypt: Lift punitive measures against EIPR staff

NGOs call upon States to make recommendations to Egypt in upcoming Universal Periodic Review on the lifting of all travel bans, asset freezes and other punitive measures against human rights defenders, including EIPR’s staff members, and to end the targeting of human rights defenders and organisations solely for their legitimate work.

Human rights defender’s story: Basma Mostafa, from Egypt

‘The Egyptian authorities must open the civic space for civil society to play its role. They must stop persecuting human rights defenders, political opponents, and journalists simply for doing their jobs. The UN and the international community must maintain pressure on them to comply with human rights standards.’

Over fifty organisations urge Egypt to immediately release detained academic at risk of death

The Egyptian authorities should immediately release Salah Soltan, the arbitrarily detained father of a prominent US human rights defender, 51 human rights organisations said today. The authorities should ensure his immediate and urgent access to life-saving health care, and conduct effective and transparent investigations into reports that he has been tortured and otherwise ill-treated.