Egypt’s Human Rights Periodic Review Report Reveals Major Human Rights Violations
The United Nations Human Rights Council issued a final report on January 28, 2025, on the human rights situation in #Egypt, based on the country’s Universal Periodic Review. The report presented 382 recommendations from 137 countries, confirming the government’s failure to improve its human rights record before the international community.
The report detailed several human rights issues in Egypt, most notably: torture, “redetention” of detainees on the same changes, political detention, enforced disappearance, and the absence of justice in flawed criminal procedure laws. It also highlighted the repression of journalists and human rights activists, the decline in women’s rights, and the ongoing violations of asylum and association rights.
The report reflects a true picture of the unprecedented human rights crisis in Egypt, as the Human Rights Council is expected to discuss the recommendations during its next session, which will be held between June 16 and July 11, 2025, while considering the Egyptian government’s commitment to implementing these recommendations.
El-Shehab For Human Rights stresses that these recommendations represent an important call for the international community to pressure the Egyptian government to comply with human rights and ensure justice and equality for all citizens.
Many human rights organisations would follow up on the government’s implementation of these recommendations, stressing that the time has come to stop the systematic violations that many citizens in Egypt have been subjected to.
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