From the Exile

بسبب القيود المفروضة على صفحة المؤسسة وحساب الأعمال الخاص بها، والتي لم نتمكن من حلها لفترة طويلة، سنقوم بنشر محتوى المؤسسة وبياناتها وأنشطتها على صفحة جديدة عبر الرابط التالي:

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نتمنى متابعتكم ودعمكم!

Law and Democracy Support Foundation A civil society organization committed to defending the rule of law and promoting democratic values in the Middle East and North Africa.

to Secretary Rubio urgently calls united States to help secure release of Ahmed Kamel

The Honorable Marco Rubio

Secretary of State

2201 C Street, NW

Washington, DC 20520

Dear Secretary Rubio,

We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to urgently request the Trump administration to help secure the immediate release of from detention in , where he faces imminent extradition to on bogus charges. Extraditing Kamel would break up an American family, leaving his wife and two young children, all U.S. citizens, without their husband and father. It would also place Ahmed at grave risk of torture and other severe human rights violations, a clear breach of Saudi Arabia’s international legal obligation to respect the principle of non-refoulement.

Ahmed Fathi Kamel, an Egyptian citizen, peacefully participated in protests in Egypt in 2011 and 2013. He was arrested in January 2014 and subjected to torture by Egyptian authorities. After his release, he completed his mandatory military service with distinction. Then in 2015, he pursued a career opportunity in Saudi Arabia, where he has resided lawfully ever since. Despite building a life in Saudi Arabia, including marrying and raising two young children with his wife, Kamel was sentenced by an Egyptian court in absentia in 2017 to 25 years in prison for his involvement in the protests. Months before his sentence in absentia, he traveled back to Egypt for two months to visit his family without incident.

Seven years later, on November 13, 2024, Kamel was arrested in Saudi Arabia following an extradition request issued by Egypt on charges that relate to the exercise of his right to freedom of assembly. He remains detained in Jeddah and faces imminent deportation. This potential extradition raises grave concerns due to Egypt’s systematic use of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, particularly against opposition figures, critics, and peaceful protesters.

Kamel’s case is emblematic of a troubling trend of transnational repression in the Middle East and North Africa. Authoritarian governments are increasingly collaborating, through mechanisms such as the Arab Interior Ministers Council, to target anyone perceived as a critic, even those such as Ahmed, who has been politically inactive for over 10 years now and is trying to build a new life in another country. This growing trend extends the arms of oppression across borders, putting anyone at risk throughout the region, including Americans and their family members.

The arrest and detention of have had devastating consequences for his family. His wife has been forced to care for their two young children alone in Saudi Arabia, unable to return to her home in the United States with her whole family as she fights for her husband’s freedom. His wife sent a plea to the Saudi government last week, in which she explained, “I am a nursing mother in a country I’m only still getting to know, struggling to stay strong for my children as we risk losing the pillar of our family.”

Ahmed Kamel’s continued detention and imminent extradition are unjustifiable and must be halted immediately. We urge the Trump administration to do everything it can to keep this American family whole by urging Saudi Arabia to refrain from deporting him to Egypt and to release him immediately.

Signed,

ALQST for Human Rights

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies

DAWN

Egyptian Front for Human Rights

FairSquare

HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement

Law and Democracy Support Foundation – LDSF

MENA Rights Group

Middle East Democracy Center (MEDC)

REDWORD For Human Rights & Freedom of Expression

Start Point

Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP)

#مصر: سجل الحكومة المصرية الحقوقي تحت مجهر الأمم المتحدةالدول تدعو إلى إصلاحات جذرية والمجتمع المدني المصري يندد بالقمع الوحشي

المنظمات الموقعة أدناه تؤكد أن وضع حقوق الإنسان في مصر الآن أسوأ من أي وقت مضى في تاريخها الحديث، وأن الحكومة المصرية تمتلك القدرة والسلطة للاستجابة لهذه التوصيات واتخاذ تدابير فعالة لتحسين أوضاع حقوق الإنسان، لكن العقبة الحقيقية تكمن في غياب الإرادة السياسية.

في جلسة الاستعراض، وكالمعتاد، واصلت الحكومة المصرية حالة الإنكار المتعمد لكافة الانتهاكات الحقوقية المشار لها في التقارير الأممية وتقارير المنظمات المصرية والدولية، مكتفية بالترويج لمبادرات “رنانة” مثل الاستراتيجية الوطنية والحوار الوطني ولجنة العفو، وتزيف الحقائق بإصلاحات وهمية لا تطبيق لها على أرض الواقع.


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تشارك مؤسسة دعم القانون والديمقراطية في جلسة ضمن لملف في #مصر، وذلك في التابع لـ . تابعونا للمزيد من التحديثات!

Law and Democracy Support Foundation is participating in the session as part of the for the file in , within the . Stay tuned for more updates!

#حرية #عدالة #ديمقراطية

جزء من مشاركة من المنبر المصري لحقوق الإنسان في فعالية “شهادات من عائلات الضحايا والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان”، التي أقيمت اليوم ضمن في #مصر.

توسّعت السلطات المصرية في استخدام القمع العابر للحدود لاستهداف المعارضين والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان في الخارج، من خلال الحرمان من الأوراق الثبوتية، والإدراج على قوائم الإرهاب، والزج في قضايا جديدة في سياق التضيق العابر للحدود، إضافة إلى محاولات الترحيل القسري بالتنسيق مع بعض الحكومات عبر اتفاقيات التعاون الأمني.

القمع العابر للحدود يشمل أيضًا التضييق المستمر على النشطاء، ومنعهم من التنقل بحرية، وتهديد أسرهم داخل مصر، في محاولة لإسكات أي صوت معارض، حتى خارج حدود البلاد.