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Egypt: Release researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy


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NGOs urge Egyptian Authorities to Release Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy
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 undersigned organizations further call on the authorities to ensure prompt, independent, impartial, transparent, and effective investigations into Ahmed Samir Santawy’s allegations of being subjected to enforced disappearance and ill-treatment by security forces following his arrest.
The undersigned organizations consider that Ahmed Samir Santawy, a researcher and master’s student of anthropology at the Vienna-based Central European University (CEU), is arbitrarily detained solely because of his academic work focusing on women s rights, including the history of reproductive rights in Egypt. ....

Al Qahirah , United States , Comisiones Obreras , Nabil Barkati , Robertf Kennedy , Caminando Fronteras , Walid Salem , Ahmed Samir Santawy , Patrick George Zaki , Tahrir Institute For Middle East , Clean Air Action Group Environmental Association , Legal Research Institute , El Nadim Center , Tunisian Association Of The Democratic Women , Egyptian Human Rights Forum , Rights Group , Association Of Tunisian Women For Research , Hungarian Environmental Partnership Foundation , World Organisation Against , Research Centre For Human Rights , Association Of North America , Hungarian Europe Society , Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network Africandefenders , Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights , Tunisian Forum For Economic , Teaching And Research ,

Condemnation of Egypt's Abuses at UN Rights Body


Overdue Action is a Step Forward
Egyptian security forces cordon off roads during curfew hours as prevention measures due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2020.
© AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty
(Geneva, March 12, 2021) – Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world expressed their strong support today for a joint declaration by UN member states condemning the human rights situation in Egypt, which was delivered at the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. In the declaration, governments expressed “deep concern” for widespread human rights violations committed with impunity by the Egyptian authorities.
 
The joint declaration, signed by 31 states and delivered by Finland at the Council’s 46th session, highlighted “restrictions on freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly, [and] the constrained space for civil society and political opposition.” It also co ....

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