The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the security crackdown on the news platform Matsaddash, which began on Monday evening and continued over the following 24 hours.
Files: Digital freedom
We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent media outlets, join together to condemn the escalating crackdown on
Masaar and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) call on the Supreme Council for Media Regulation and the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to publish the full text of their joint decision on children’s social media acco
We, the undersigned organizations, renew our call for the immediate and unconditional r
The undersigned organizations reject any policy that makes providing a facial image, fingerprint, or other biometric identifier data a condition for registering, managing, or recovering a mobile phone line; using the “My Numbers” service; or ch
4 Aug 2026
Position Paper
Lobna Darwish, Advocacy Director at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
26 Jul 2026
Introduction
At the onset of exceptional measures to confront the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020, Egypt’s Public Prosecution launched a campaign of “moral” prosecutions targeting non-political online content for “violating Egyptian family values.” This is now a core approach of its operations.
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) condemns the arrest of poet and political prisoner Ahmed Douma today at the premises of the Supreme State Security Prosecution.
