Frauen im Visier transnationaler Repression. Autoritäre Regime bedrohen gezielt Frauen im Exil – mit Gewalt, Einschüchterung und sexualisierten Drohungen. Die Koalition gegen transnationale Repression...

Law and Democracy Support Foundation (LDSF) strongly condemns the sexual and physical assaults, threats, and surveillance targeting journalist and human rights defender Sophia Tekwani and her family i...

The Supreme State Prosecution summoned Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah on Saturday to appear for questioning next Monday in case 6182/2025.  Although the summons did not specify the reason for...

If you have something different inside of you, don’t lose it, don’t suppress it. Feed it by reading poetry, by participating in such campaigns and solidarity.

On 30 June 2025, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched its first-ever brief on transnational repression (TNR) at a side event during the 59th session of the UN Human...

Join us to mark the 35th birthday of PEN America’s 2025 Freedom to Write honoree Galal El-Behairy, currently detained in Egypt for his words.

In a joint statement, led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 25 press freedom and human rights organizations called on the Egyptian government to end its transnational repression campaign agains...

In a joint statement, led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 25 press freedom and human rights organizations called on the Egyptian government to end its transnational repression campaign agains...

Transnational repression of human rights defenders: The impacts on civic space and the responsibility of host states

Civil society calls on the Egyptian government to immediately end campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists.

The undersigned human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, urge the Egyptian authorities to stop targeting...

26 rights organizations call on Egypt to end its cross-border campaign of harassment and surveillance targeting exiled journalist Basma Mostafa. The statement urges Egypt to respond to a UN report and...

26 rights organizations call on Egypt to end its cross-border campaign of harassment and surveillance targeting exiled journalist Basma Mostafa. The statement urges Egypt to respond to a UN report and...

Join us to mark the 35th birthday of PEN America’s 2025 Freedom to Write honoree Galal El-Behairy, currently detained in Egypt for his words.

Check out what Basma Mostafa will be attending at NR25

It has now been almost eight months since British-Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah finished his prison sentence, yet he remains in jail in Egypt. With his health and the life of his mother at seriou...

Ägyptische Journalisten sind im europäischen Exil nicht sicher. Angehörige werden in der Heimat bedroht und manchmal gar als Geiseln genommen.

Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gese...

Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gese...

Luise Amtsberg, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office, issued the following statement today (16 April 2025): Germany…

Luise Amtsberg, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance at the Federal Foreign Office, issued the following statement today (16 April 2025): Germany…

Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und humanitäre Hilfe, Luise Amtsberg, erklärt heute (16.04.2025): Deutschland lehnt transnationale Repression, online oder offline,…

وجه خمسة من المقررين الخاصين بالأمم المتحدة خطابًا إلى الحكومة المصرية أعربوا فيه عن قلقهم مما وصفوه بـ"المضايقات والقمع العابر للحدود" الذي تتعرض له الصحفية بسمة مصطفى في ألمانيا وسويسرا ودول أخرى "و...

Alaa Abdel Fattah sitzt seit über fünf Jahren im Gefängnis. Seine Mutter macht mit einem Hungerstreik darauf aufmerksam – und könnte Hilfe bekommen.

Rebels have freed thousands of detainees from jails as they swept across the country.