Articles for Egypt

On 22 June 2022, Alkarama submitted the case of Abdelrahman Ali Mohammed Ali ELSAYAR and Hossam Ali Mohamed Hegazy HAMZA to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, both of whom were arbitrarily arrested by the Egyptian security forces and then sentenced to long prison terms following unfair trials.

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The case of Abdelrahman ELSAYAR

On 7 June 2022, Alkarama addressed to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) asking them to call on the Egyptian authorities to release the staff members of former Egyptian President Dr Mohamed Morsi arrested following the military coup in 2013.

On 25 April 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances regarding the situation of Karim Yaser Abdulnabi ABDULAZIM, an Egyptian arrested by security forces in the governorate of Al Sharqiyyah (north-east, Egypt) on 12 April 2022.

The "Stop the Execution" campaign confirms that the death sentences issued in Egypt recently, the executions of 105 political detainees, and executions that can be carried out at any time against 95 of those sentenced to death, especially those who had their final and enforceable sentences in 18 cases among the cases described as political, are kinds of (political revenge), far from trying to achieve justice via fair trials with its guarantees and principles, which must be adhered to by everyone, especially the judicial and executive authorities.

On 3 March 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances regarding the situation of Omar Maher Abdel Zaher EL DESOUKY, an Egyptian engineer who was arrested without a judicial warrant by security forces at Cairo airport on 20 December 2021 while on his way to Sweden.

On February 16^th, 2022, Alkarama addressed the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the case of the former governor of Qalyubia, who was arrested on September 17^th, 2013 by the police and has been held in solitary confinement since then.

The release without trial of the Egyptian activist of Palestinian origin, Rami Shaath, confirms the credibility of the accusations against the Egyptian authorities of misuse of measures "to combat terrorism". It also confirms the political use of this accusation as a pretext to repress activists and silence opposition voices.

A UN expert has deplored the continuing large-scale arrests and prolonged pre-trial detentions of human rights defenders in Egypt, claiming that activists are being held without arrest warrants, held incommunicado and then charged with multiple spurious crimes.
of multiple spurious crimes.

Alkarama expresses its shock and deep concern regarding the Egyptian Court of Cassation's decision on the death sentences handed down onto 12 individuals. These individuals are leaders of the "Muslim Brotherhood" group in Egypt, arrested in the Rabaa sit-in case in 2013, after prolonged arbitrary proceedings and trials lacking essential guarantees of justice.

Alia Awad, an Egyptian photographer and journalist, who has been detained in prison for nearly five years, and has been banned from visits for nearly a year, faces imminent risks during her detention due to medical negligence as a result of a uterine tumor and other illnesses that have resulted in a serious deterioration of her health.