Egyptian authorities’ campaign against human rights defenders in the country “significantly escalated” during the month of March, according to the Cairo-based NGO Arabic Network for Human Rights Information’s monthly report, released on Wednesday. According to the document, which details the state of democracy and human rights in Egypt, authorities have summoned a number of human rights workers for questioning, including employees from Nazra for Feminist Studies and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. They have also frozen the assets of several human rights defenders, raided their homes and, in some cases, abducted them to unknown locations. March also witnessed 20 cases of violations against media freedoms, including one publication ban, one coverage ban and a number of administrative sanctions against independent media. Violations of media freedoms decreased by one case, as compared to ANHRI’s February report that registered 21 instances of media freedom violations. Protests in Egypt were also on the rise in March. ANHRI documented a total of 138 protest events, compared to February’s 91. The most common protest organizers in March were the Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-2013 military takeover group, National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, which together…
Crackdown On Egypt’s Human Rights Defenders ‘Significantly Escalated’ in March: ANHRI Report
April 6, 2016
