Urgent Action Outcome: Human Rights Defenders Released On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer, directors at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), were released and are now safely home with their families and loved ones.
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer were released pending investigations into terrorism-related and other unfounded charges. Three days later, a court decided to freeze their personal assets following grossly unfair proceedings. They were arrested between 15 and 19 November 2020 by Egyptian security forces and arbitrarily detained at the Tora Prison Complex, in apparent retaliation for a human rights briefing with 13 western diplomats at EIPR’s office on 3 November 2020.