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#FreeAlaa: Freedom for our courageous friend and human rights defender, Alaa Abdel Fattah
Our courageous friend and colleague, Egyptian activist and technologist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, must be released from his arbitrary detention immediately….
Enforced disappearances and accompanying impunity continue to prevail in the region
Today, on the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we the 33 undersigned local, regional,…
Egypt Sentences Tiktok Bloggers to Years in Prison
As part of a wave of arrests against women content creators in Egypt, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Haneen Hossam,…
Open Letter to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube: Stop silencing critical voices from the Middle East and North Africa
17 December 2020, Ten years ago today, 26-year old Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest…
Human rights organizations call on Egypt’s government to end internet censorship and website blocking
The undersigning human rights organizations denounce the Egyptian authorities’ blocking of at least 600 websites since May 2017 including media,…
