Human rights defenders imprisoned in Egypt must be released for EuroMed Rights
(B2) The campaign Human Rights Behind Bars in Egypt that the NGO has just launched EuroMedRights with the Cairo Institute to release human rights activists in Egypt is a fitting reminder that Egypt does not always truly respect human rights. A point on which the European Union keeps a cautious silence, preferring good stabilization to perfect freedom.
Egyptian human rights activists are “constantly targeted, threatened, prosecuted and sentenced to imprisonment” underlines the NGO. These young people of the Revolution are always detained in prison for months or even years ". She throws a petition which urges the Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union to put pressure on the Egyptian President for an immediate release of human rights activists.
The NGO cites 4 emblematic cases of a whole generation of people arrested.
Mahmoud Hussein : arrested at 18 for wearing an anti-torture t-shirt, “ in pre-detention for more than 700 days without any tangible evidence linking him to violent or terrorist actions ».
Aya Hegazy founded the organization Belady to help street children. Arrested " and convicted of organizing a group for the purpose of human trafficking and detention of children for sexual exploitation ».
Alaa Abdel Fattah : stopped under Mubarak, but “ also by all the regimes that have ruled Egypt since the revolution in 2011 ". He " currently serving a 5-year sentence after a trial deemed unfair by international observers ».
ahmed said : an activist, surgeon and poet who was arrested during a peaceful demonstration. On December 13, 2015, he and 4 others were sentenced to two years in prison for protesting without a permit.
