Bahey eldin hassan biography

Bahey eldin Hassan is an.
Bahey eldin Hassan is an Egyptian human rights defender and one of the founders of the.
Bahey Eldin Hassan is the director and founder of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), a Cairo-based, independent, regional non-governmental.

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Smear campaign incites violence against human rights defenders in Egypt

On 25 May 2017, Egyptian parliamentarian and TV presenter, Mostafa Bakry, broadcast the names and photos of a group of Egyptian human rights defenders who attended a human rights meeting in Rome on 20-21 May 2017 on his TV program on the private Egyptian channel, Sada El-Balad, declaring them traitors and urging Egyptian intelligence services to abduct and return them to Egypt in coffins for criminal trial.

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On 20-21 May 2017, Euro Med Rights organised a meeting in Rome on human rights in Egypt which brought together academics, researchers and representatives of civil society organisations working on human rights from Italy, Denmark, Tunisia, Palestine, Germany, Belgium and Germany. Among the participants were Bahey Eldin Hassan director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; human rights lawyer Khaled Ali; political scientist and columnist Amr Hamzawy; Mohamed Zarea, president of the Arab Organisation for Penal Reform; Ahmed Samih, executive director of the Andal

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Monique El-Faizy

Hope is not the first word that comes to mind for most when the topic of Egypt comes up these days. Journalists are being thrown in prison for telling the truth, teenage girls for posting videos of themselves dancing on TikTok and witnesses to sexual assault for coming forward. Add in mounting unemployment and a shrinking economy and the picture that emerges is far from rosy.

There are those who have less reason for optimism than others, Bahey eldin Hassan, director and co-founder of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), among them. This lifelong rights activist has been in the crosshairs of various regimes for most of his adult life, but in 2014 the water in the proverbial lobster pot heated up so precipitously that he was forced to jump out. He has been living in self-exile in France ever since.

Born in Cairo in 1948—the same year the UN Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, he points out—Hassan began his activism young, joining student protests during the Nasser regime in the 1960s. He did a brief stint in prison at the time, which

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Cairo accused of ‘gravely endangering’ activists and infringing on their fundamental rights by imprisoning them during pandemic

Egypt has jailed more than 60,000 dissidents (AFP/File photo) By MEE staff

The Middle East Eye of 8 October 2020 reported that the UN Human Rights Council said in a statement on Friday that Cairo was treating free speech as terrorism.

“Terrorism charges and exceptional courts are being used to target legitimate human rights activities, and have a profound chilling effect on civil society as a whole,” according to 10 international specialists, including the UN rapporteurs on counter-terrorism and extrajudicial killings.

“The use of terrorism courts to target and harass civil society is inconsistent with the rule of law.“

The statement came days after Egypt executed 15 political prisoners who had been in detention since 2014.

The UN experts slammed the terrorism courts, saying that they undermine defendants’ basic legal rights, including the presumption of innocence. The special courts were created in 20