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Toolkit
Gender and Sexuality Activism in Exile: A Toolkit for Human Rights Defenders and LGBTI Activists
A practical toolkit for human rights defenders and LGBTI activists working on gender and sexuality issues while living in exile.
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Guide
Advocacy from Exile: A Strategic Guide for Human Rights Defenders
At a glance: Human rights advocacy, exile and diaspora, campaign planning, international mechanisms, digital advocacy, safety and risk management | For human rights defenders, activists, journalists, civil society organizations, advocacy practitioners and diaspora groups “Geography may change where advocacy happens, but it does not have to bring it to an end.” “Advocacy from Exile: A […]
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Guide
Guide to Artivism in Exile: Between Expression, Struggle, and Societal Transformation
At a glance: Artivism, exile and diaspora, cultural policy, freedom of artistic expression | For artists and cultural actors in exile, workshop facilitators, cultural and human rights organizations “This toolkit gives artists in exile the analytical tools to decide for themselves what the political dimension of their work will be.” “Guide to Artivism in Exile: […]
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Analysis
How Access Pathways Reshape the Public Sphere in the Diaspora… Unwritten Rules that Redistribute Legitimacy Within Activism in Exile
The vitality of the public sphere is measured by people’s ability to enter spaces of public action and remain in them.
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Joint statement
One year since the arrest of Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi: a year of complicity, enforced disappearance, and diplomatic failure
Today, 28 December 2025, marks one year since the arrest of Egyptian–Turkish poet and opposition figure Abdulrahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Lebanon. This incident constitutes a serious violation of Lebanese law and of Lebanon’s international obligations and reveals a dangerous pattern of transnational repression, in which political complicity enables the transfer of dissidents to states where […]
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Joint statement
Punishment by Proxy in Egypt: Families of Exiled Journalists, Activists and Human Rights Defenders Held Hostage by the Authorities
The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the Egyptian authorities, which has only intensified in recent months. This years-long practice involves targeting relatives inside Egypt of activists, writers, and dissidents living abroad through raids, arrests, and enforced disappearances, in an attempt to pressure or punish […]
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Joint statement
Egypt | Rights Groups Condemn the Arbitrary Referral of Exiled Academic Taqadum Al-Khatib to Trial and Call for an End to Transnational Repression
The undersigned organizations express their condemnation of the continued persecution and harassment of Egyptian researcher and academic Dr. Taqadum Al-Khatib, who has been living in exile in Germany, following a new arbitrary in absentia decision by the Egyptian authorities to refer him, along with 168 others, to criminal trial in Case No. 29/2025 […]
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Joint statement
Egypt’s Diplomatic Missions Weaponized as Transnational Repression Tool
We strongly condemn the unprecedented weaponization of Egyptian diplomatic missions as tools of transnational repression against peaceful protesters abroad. A recently leaked recording of Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty shows him instructing embassy staff to “grab them [protestors], tie them up, drag them inside, and make their lives hell”, a shocking directive that fundamentally undermines the principles […]
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Joint statement
200 Days of Abdulrahman Yusuf’s Enforced Disappearance: Reveal His Whereabouts. Ensure His Safety. Release Him Now.
The undersigned organizations are extremely concerned over the continued enforced disappearance of Turkish-Egyptian poet and political dissident Abdulrahman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi for more than 200 days. Abdulrahman Yusuf was arrested in Lebanon on 28 December 2024 and forcibly extradited to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 8 January 2025, in flagrant violation of due process guarantees […]
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Letter
Joint Letter to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Urging Action on the Ongoing Detention of Galal El-Behairy
On July 31, 2025, +10 human rights organizations wrote to the Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S. Motaz Zahran urging him to raise our concerns about the detention of poet and PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award honoree Galal El-Behairy with relevant authorities in Cairo. Your Excellency, We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are deeply alarmed by […]
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Joint statement
Egypt | Rights Groups Call on Egyptian Authorities to Immediately Release Dr. Salah Soltan and All Wrongfully Detained Prisoners Sentenced in Case No. 1766 of 2022
We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply alarmed by the news that Egyptian academic and U.S. lawful permanent resident Dr. Salah Soltan is enduring a potentially life-threatening medical crisis and is at increased risk of sudden death while detained in Egypt’s Badr 1 prison without sufficient medical care. We urge the Egyptian authorities to immediately and […]
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Joint statement
Egypt | Rights organizations call on Egypt to end transnational repression against exiled journalist Basma Mostafa
We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Egyptian government to immediately end its campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists. We specifically urge the government to respond to the UN report detailing the harassment and surveillance of Egyptian investigative journalist Basma Mostafa, currently residing in Germany. We further urge German authorities to ensure her […]
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