Egypt: Freedom of Assembly Faces Dangerous Relapse in Egypt, Turkey, and Algeria

press release

On Friday, June 13, 2014, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, in conjunction with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the World Organization Against Torture, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), organized a special event on the right to peaceful assembly in the Euro-Mediterranean region, titled "Freedom of assembly in the Euro-Med Region: a dangerous relapse?" The side event was held at the 26th session of the UN Human Rights Council, which is currently convened in Geneva and which will continue until June 27.

The event featured Osman İşçi, Human Rights Association of Turkey and Executive committee member of EMHRN; Yacine Zaid, unionist and member of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights, (LADDH)Algeria; andBassem Al Samragy, a researcher on Egypt program at the CIHRS. The discussion was chaired by Gerald Staberock, Secretary General of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT).

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