August 2025 - HuMENA

Egyptian authorities accused of targeting minors on gaming platforms

Egypt | Egyptian Authorities Should Stop Targeting Minors Over Online Gaming Activity

August 29, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

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…

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Call to Withdraw from “Counter-Terrorism” Summit in Israel Amid Genocide in Gaza

August 25, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

We strongly urge all participants to withdraw from the upcoming World Summit on Counter-Terrorism organised by the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), a research institute of Israel’s Reichman University. The event, scheduled for September 15-18, 2025, and branded as the “most influential event in the field of counter-terrorism today”, is taking place amid Israel’s ongoing genocide in…

The Egyptian Government’s Urban Control Strategies to Prevent Peaceful Protests

Trends August 22, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

For decades, Egypt has witnessed a series of peaceful protests that represent the voice of the Egyptian people on various social and political issues. These protests are considered an integral part of Egypt’s modern history, as they represent an ongoing struggle to improve conditions, whether political conditions, labor issues, or otherwise. Nevertheless, peaceful protests in…

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From the Constitution to the Prison: How Egypt Penalizes Citizens for Protesting

August 18, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

In an era of accelerating repression in Egypt and a shrinking civic space, we must ask again why the state is intent on criminalising the right to protest and what the consequences are for those who exercise their right to peaceful expression and assembly. This text re-examines the relationship between constitutional texts and daily security…

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HuMENA: Israel’s Targeting of Journalists in Gaza Is a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity in the Context of Systematic Genocide and Starvation

August 12, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement strongly condemns the Israeli airstrike on 10 August 2025 that targeted a media tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, killing journalists Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Quraiqa, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Alouwa, and Mohammed Noufal, along with a relative, while they were documenting violations and reporting from the field. The…

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Egypt | Ongoing Harassment of Lina Attalah and Escalating Crackdown on Mada Masr and Independent Journalism in Egypt

August 11, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

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…

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Saudi Arabia | NGOs call for immediate release of Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi, still held two years after his sentence ended

August 7, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

We, the undersigned organisations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi more than two years beyond his sentence. His continuing detention, along with countless others, demonstrates that despite a recent spate of prisoner releases, the Saudi authorities’ severe repression of rights activists and critics remains. We call for his immediate…

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200 Days of Abdulrahman Yusuf’s Enforced Disappearance: Reveal His Whereabouts. Ensure His Safety. Release Him Now.

August 5, 2025 0Comments 0Reactions

The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned over the continued enforced disappearance of Turkish-Egyptian poet and political dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for more than 200 days. Abdulrahman Yusuf was arrested in Lebanon on 28 December 2024 and forcibly extradited to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 8 January 2025, in flagrant violation of due process guarantees…