Amnesty Worldwide launched a press statement on Tuesday urging Egypt to carry journey bans not too long ago imposed on human rights attorneys Nasser Amin and Hoda Abdelwahab.
The journey bans are related to the controversial and long-drawn Case 713/2011 (extra popularly often known as the “international funding case”), through which quite a lot of NGOs and people have been put beneath investigation for receiving international funding. Throughout the course of this case, the operations of quite a few NGOs have been halted and lots of related people have been arrested, positioned beneath journey bans and had their property frozen.
One of many NGOs that was a part of Case 713 was the Arab Centre for Independence of Judiciary and Legal Profession (ACIJLP), which was headed by Amin and Abdelwahab. Journey bans have been positioned on the 2 consequently.
The case ended not too long ago on March 20, 2024, but journey bans in opposition to Amin, Abdelwahab, and others proceed.
Egypt has drawn worldwide condemnation for poor therapy of NGOs and activists. For example, in 2016, Amnesty Worldwide and Human Rights Watch launched an announcement condemning the “arbitrary and abusive” journey bans imposed on activists. In 2018 the European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning Egypt’s “crackdown in opposition to civil society organisations, human rights defenders, peaceable activists, attorneys, bloggers, journalists, labour rights defenders and commerce unionists, together with by arresting and disappearing a number of of them and more and more utilizing counter-terrorism and state of emergency legal guidelines.” The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Research (CIHRS) launched a nine-point criticism of Egypt’s law 49 of 2019 on Regulating the Exercise of Civil Work in 2021, opposing the regulation for additional proscribing the scope of freedom for civil work.
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