Programs: Civil Liberties
We, the undersigned civil society organizations and independent media outlets, join together to condemn the escalating crackdown on
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.
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
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) welcomes the decision to release 10 non-Egyptian Shia Muslims who were arbitrarily arrested during a recent security crackdown targeting Shia Muslims in Egypt ahead of the Ashura holiday celebr
16 Sep 2026
“At every new beginning, I stop at the same point to ask the same questions: When will they find out [that I am a Baha’i]? How will they react? Will things go normally? There is always a hidden possibility of rejection, as if something is going to derail everything.”
With these words, 24-year-old Jamila began her response when asked if she had fears about the future as a young Egyptian Baha’i. She continued:
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
Families of seven individuals detained since last year in a crackdown on atheists and religious dissenters sent telegraphs to the Public Prosecutor and the President last week, calling for their relatives' immediate release.
