Thursday, December 29, 2011

Egyptian security forces raid human rights & democracy organizations



Please see headlines, press release and footage below. Seven (7) of the seventeen (17) American and Egyptian entities include:

- Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary (Nasser Amin, Chair and rights lawyer)
- Budgetary and Human Rights Observatory
- Future Center for Judicial Studies
Konrad Adenauer Foundation (German think tank, affiliated to Chancellor Angela Merkel's party)
- International Republican Institute
- National Democratic Institute
- Freedom House

Related organizations receiving similar allegations:

- al-Sunna al-Muhammadiya Association (conservative Islamic Salafi movement)


Video: Egypt authorities raid foreign-funded NGOs - EuroNews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsgTFJh0nGI



Video: Egyptian security forces seize computers and files
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFtiySV1rmI




Press Release: Freedom House Condemns Raids of NGOs in Egypt
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=70&release=1544


Report: US 'Deeply Concerned' After Egyptian Police Raid Offices of US Rights Groups - FoxNews
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/12/29/us-deeply-concerned-after-egyptian-police-raid-offices-us-rights-groups/#ixzz1hy9pQcOT


Report: Egypt police raid offices of human rights groups in Cairo - Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/29/egypt-police-raid-human-rights-groups


Report: Egypt security forces storm NGO offices - AlJazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/12/20111229152611424630.html


Report: Egypts Democracy Activists Fear Wider Clampdown