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EGYPT: 74 NGOS URGE EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES TO RELEASE RESEARCHER AHMED SAMIR SANTAWY

April 14, 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

Ahmed Samir Santawy – French Ahmed Samir Santawy – German Ahmed Samir Santawy – Spanish Ahmed Samir Santawy- Arabic We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been arbitrarily detained since 1 February 2021 on bogus terrorism-related charges. The…

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Bahrain: Open letter to Danish Prime Minister to take immediate action to free Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja

January 22, 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

Dear Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, We the undersigned, more than 100 organizations from around the world, are appealing for your assistance to secure the release of prominent human rights defender and dual Danish-Bahraini citizen Abdul-Hadi Al-Khawaja from prison in Bahrain, where he is serving a life sentence for his peaceful political and human rights activities…

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MENA Network for Countering Hate Speech welcomes the Recommendations of Facebook’s Review Report

July 13, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

MENA Network for Countering Hate Speech welcomes the recommendations of the Facebook own civil rights review report, and stresses the importance of taking them into consideration, especially those related to stopping hate speech in general, and to the destructive hate speech practiced by heads of states and governments in particular for the great impact they…

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Egypt: End Reprisals, Harassment and Threats Against Civil Society Leader Mostafa Fouad

June 30, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

The undersigned civil society organisations call on Egyptian authorities to immediately end their harassment of Egyptian activist and Deputy Director of HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement, Mostafa Fouad. To: Mary Lawler, Special Rapporteur on the Freedom on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, and Clément Voule, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Association and…

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Yemen: Over 150 NGOs appeal for death sentences of four journalists to be overturned

May 12, 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

Organisations which support human rights, press freedom and journalists are calling on United Nations mechanisms and member states to help save the lives of four Yemeni journalists who were sentenced to death in April 2020 in the capital Sana’a on charges of “spying” and “spreading false news.” Of the six other journalists in the same case whom the…