Since November 2013 the protest law has been used in Egypt to make peaceful assembly a crime and to imprison the people who took part in it. This page gathers what HuMENA has documented about how it is applied, the cases brought under it, and who is still held because of it.
What we have published
- AnalysisThe Egyptian Government’s Urban Control Strategies to Prevent Peaceful Protests22 August 2025
- AnalysisFrom the Constitution to the Prison: How Egypt Penalizes Citizens for Protesting18 August 2025
- AnalysisThe Street Is Not Yours: Repression of Bodies and Assemblies in Egypt3 July 2025
- Joint StatementsThe Egyptian authorities must immediately release Mohamed Adel and guarantee his safety, while bearing full responsibility for the deterioration of his health9 September 2024
- Joint StatementsEgypt: Immediately and unconditionally release prominent political activist Mohamed Adel8 May 2024
- Press ReleasesProtest and Peaceful Assembly are Right.. HuMENA strongly condemns the broad arrest campaign of protesters in solidarity with Gaza4 April 2024
- Joint StatementsJoint statement: Egypt must immediately and unconditionally release anti-torture protester Mahmoud Hussein28 March 2024
- LetterHuMENA and rights groups calling on UN mechanisms to intervene to stop violations of freedom of assembly in Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia4 July 2023
- Joint StatementsAhmed Douma: 10 years of arbitrary detention. Over 900 individuals and Rights groups renew their call for his immediate release.14 December 2022
- ReportsPartners in Repression: Judicial harassments faced by the human rights defenders in Egypt30 June 2022
From the archive