Egypt - Latest Press Releases

Egypt: 19-year old Student Released After Abduction by Security Forces

EGY - News | 10 November 2014

Alkarama welcomes the release, on 6 November 2014, of 19-year-old student, Aliaa Tarek Mohammad Alsayed, whose family had not heard from since her abduction by the Egyptian security forces at the Al Azhar University campus in Cairo on 20 October 2014.

Egypt: 3 Students Missing Since the Raba’a Massacre

EGY - News | 27 October 2014

On 22 October 2014, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the abduction of three Egyptian students. Mohamed Hammad Ali Omar (20 years old), Mohammed Khader Ali Mohamed (21) and Mohamed Abdulsalam Ali Mohamed Abdulhamid (21) disappeared since their arrest by Egyptian security forces on 14 August 2013 during the Raba'a al Adawiya and al-Nahda squares massacres in Cairo. Their families are still looking for answers.

Egypt: Abduction and Enforced Disappearance of a Muslim Brotherhood Member

EGY - News | 21 October 2014

On 17 October 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to bring to their attention the case of Mohamed Abdulhamid Ali, a 32 years old Egyptian citizen disappeared since his abduction by the National Security Forces on 24 September 2014.

Egypt: Arbitrary Detention, Torture and Sexual Abuse of an Adolescent Woman

EGY - News | 16 October 2014

On 1 October 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal before the United Nations Special Procedures concerning the arbitrary detention and torture of Rawda Jamal Abd Al Azzem, an 18 year-old student arrested by the Egyptian police on 28 December 2013, in Nasr City.

Egypt: Torture and Secret Detention of 15 Year-Old Teenager

EGY - News | 15 October 2014

On 23 September 2014, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture regarding the case of Ahmed Rashad, a 15 year-old teenager arrested on 16 May 2014 for taking part in a peaceful demonstration in the town of Zagazig, in lower Egypt.

Egypt - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

ICCPR: Ratified on 14.01.1982
Optional Protocol: No

State report: Overdue since 01.11.2004 (4th)
Last concluding observations: 28.11.2002

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 25.06.1986
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Due on 25.06.2016 (initially due in 2004)
Last concluding observations: 23.12.2002

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 02.2010 (1st cycle)
Next review: 2014 (2nd cycle)

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) – Status A

Last review: 10.2006
Next review: Deferred