We, the undersigned civil society organizations from around the world, call on Egyptian authorities to immediately release prominent activist, poet and political writer Ahmed Douma from pretrial detention and to stop their systematic campaign of judicial harassment against him.
On April 6, 2026, many in Egypt started the day with hopeful news following Egyptian authorities’ long…
The undersigned organizations unequivocally condemn the verdict issued in absentia on 14 May 2025 by the Cairo Economic Misdemeanor Court, sentencing prominent publisher and political dissident Hisham Kassem to six months in prison with labor and ordering him to pay a fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds. The sentence stems from charges of defamation, slander, and…
