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Today marks 100 days in detention for Egyptian filmmaker and screenwriter Omar Salah Marei. MENA Rights Group joins 19 partner organisations in calling for his immediate and unconditional release.

MENA Rights Group joins 30 partner organisations in calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Egyptian activist, Ahmed Douma, ahead of the judgment in his appeal.

MENA Rights Group joins 40 human rights organisations calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately release prominent activist, poet and political writer Ahmed Douma from pretrial detention.

MENA Rights Group joins human rights organisations in raising serious concerns over GANHRI's decision to maintain "A status" for Egypt's National Council for Human Rights.

On the first anniversary of his arrest, 17 human rights organisations condemn the arrest and extradition of Egyptian–Turkish poet and dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi, describing it as an unlawful act of transnational repression.

MENA Rights Group joins the Free Hoda Abdelmoniem Campaign and 16 other human rights organizations in expressing deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdelmoniem, who has now spent seven years behind bars despite serious and life-threatening health condition.

MENA Rights Group joins Egyptian and international civil society organizations in welcoming the decision to return the draft Criminal Procedure Code to parliament for revision.

MENA Rights Group provides a summary of the UNSG's main concerns over reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA region, particularly in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen.

MENA Rights Group joins 22 other human rights NGOs in an urgent appeal to save Egyptian lawyer and human rights defender Hoda Abdel-Moneim, whose health has critically deteriorated after nearly seven years in pretrial detention.

A coalition of human rights NGOs warns that electing Egypt to the Human Rights Council would reward brutal repression and undermine the credibility of the international human rights system.

We, the undersigned organizations, strongly condemn the Egyptian security services’ targeting of minors for their digital activity through online gaming platforms. This alarming practice has resulted in children being arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, denied due process, and reportedly facing torture and other ill-treatment while in detention. These grave human rights violations contravene both Egypt’s national […]

The undersigned organizations condemn the ongoing judicial and security harassment of Mada Masr, one of the last operating independent media platforms in Egypt. The latest incident involved the summoning of Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah for interrogation before the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) on Monday, 4 August 2025, in Case No. 6182 of 2025 (SSSP). This interrogation […]