GENEVA (24 August 2020) – Lengthy and unnecessary pre-trial detention of scores of Egyptian human rights defenders is putting them at grave and unnecessary risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, UN human rights experts* said today. “There are credible allegations that some Egyptian defenders have been arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared or tortured simply for standing up for human rights,” said Mary Lawlor, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. “Egypt must release imprisoned human rights defenders and recognise the vital role they play in society.”
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 24 August 2020. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
