{"id":15849,"date":"2025-07-23T12:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrights.org\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:13:14","slug":"egypt-rights-groups-call-for-end-to-state-harassment-of-human-rights-defender-mohamed-abdel-salam-and-association-for-freedom-of-thought-and-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/2025\/07\/23\/15849\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Rights Groups Call for End to State Harassment of Human Rights Defender Mohamed Abdel Salam and Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Over 25 rights organizations condemn the continued harassment of lawyer Mohamed Abdel Salam \u2013 ex-director of AFTE \u2013 after his detention at Cairo Airport and passport confiscation.These acts are part of a systematic crackdown on Egypt\u2019s independent civil society.We demand an immediate end to the harassment, the return of his passport, and protections for human rights defenders.<\/strong><br><br>To read the full joint statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/achrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Joint-Statement.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Joint Statement.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8141cf68-200d-4a33-b907-98e93a44b050\" href=\"https:\/\/achrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Joint-Statement.pdf\">Joint Statement<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/achrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Joint-Statement.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8141cf68-200d-4a33-b907-98e93a44b050\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 25 rights organizations condemn the continued harassment of lawyer Mohamed Abdel Salam \u2013 ex-director of AFTE \u2013 after his detention at Cairo Airport and passport confiscation.These acts are part of a systematic crackdown on Egypt\u2019s independent civil society.We demand an immediate end to the harassment, the return of his passport, and protections for human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-joint-statements-and-reports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15852,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions\/15852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}