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15-Day Pretrial Detention for Lawyer Mohamed Abu El-Diar and Director Omar Salah; Lawyer Wafaa El-Masry and Dr. Hanan El-Tantawi Released on EGP 50,000 Bail

May 25, 2026 0

The Supreme State Security Prosecution has ordered the pretrial detention of lawyer Mohamed Abu...

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Egyptian Filmmaker Omar Salah Marei Appears Before Prosecutors After Six Days of Enforced Disappearance, Detained for 15 Days

May 17, 2026 0

Egyptian film director and screenwriter Omar Salah Marei appeared on the evening of May...

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Egypt: LDSF Condemns the Arrest and Enforced Disappearance of Film Director and Screenwriter Omar Salah Marei, Holds Egyptian Authorities Fully Responsible for His Safety, and Demands His Immediate Release

May 12, 2026 0

Law and Democracy Support Foundation (LDSF) strongly condemns the actions of the Egyptian security...

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Egypt: CFJ and LDSF  Submit a Joint Report to UN Mechanisms on Enforced Disappearance in the Context of Transnational Repression

February 9, 2026 0

Berlin / Geneva — 9 February 2026 The Committee for Justice (CFJ) and the...

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After serving his full sentence, Egypt must halt the cycle of abuse against blogger Mohamed Oxygen and free him now.

January 19, 2026 0

Law and Democracy Support Foundation (LDSF) expresses its grave concern over the continued systematic persecution...

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One year since the arrest of Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi: a year of complicity, enforced disappearance, and diplomatic failure

December 28, 2025 0

Today, 28 December 2025, marks one year since the arrest of Egyptian–Turkish poet and...

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Arrest of Exiled Researcher Seif al-Islam Eid’s Father Marks a New Episode in the Pattern of Retaliation Against Families of Critics Abroad.

October 31, 2025 1

Egypt Continues to Escalate Its Transnational Repression Law and Democracy Support Foundation (LDSF) strongly...

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Egypt: On his 25th birthday, rights organizations renew demand for disclosure of fate of Ahmed Hassan Mustafa, forcibly disappeared for over six years

September 1, 2025 0

The undersigned human rights organizations are gravely concerned by the prolonged enforced disappearance of...

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