Human Rights

Egyptian human rights organizations on Tuesday expressed doubt as to the prospects for free and fair parliamentary elections slated for…

US President Barack Obama’s choice of Cairo as the place to give his historic speech to the Islamic world in…

The human rights committee at the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, issued a report on Friday in which it…

Egypt's Emergency State Security Court on Sunday ordered--for the seventh time--the release of an Egyptian Shia Muslim arrested for alleged…

The Egyptian government, along with the US administration, will most likely ignore recommendations made in a recent editorial in a…

Participants at a Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) sponsored conference on Saturday said President Mubarak's regime is tightening…

Participants of a conference organized by the Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession on…

Egypt's state-run National Human Rights Council (NHRC) this week presented recommended amendments to legislation governing personal status.

Students, academics and intellectuals are celebrating a recent court ruling barring security personnel from university campuses, but concerns about its…

A delegation from the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), headed by council vice president Moqbel Shaker, praised the facilities…