Egypt’s new Fatwa Law: Bold step towards religious clarity, social stability - Egyptian Gazette

Egypt’s new Fatwa Law: Bold step towards religious clarity, social stability - Egyptian Gazette

Ibrahim Negm In a region where confusion over religious authority has often paved the way for extremism, Egypt has just taken a bold and long-overdue step to restore order and clarity. The recent passage of the Fatwa Regulation Law by Egypt’s Parliament is not just a technical legal reform – it is a cornerstone in our broader national project to renew religious discourse, protect social cohesion, and safeguard the minds of future generations. Fo…

Egypt’s New Fatwa Law Entrenches Religious Institutional Monopoly and Restricts Freedoms - Coptic Solidarity

By EIPR – On May 11, 2025, Egypt’s Parliament passed a new Law on the Regulation of Islamic Fatwas, drawing criticism from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The law, EIPR argues, expands the power of official Islamic institutions at the expense of freedom of belief, expression, and civic inclusion. EIPR urges the President not to ratify the law, and to return it to Parliament for reconsideration. Although presented as a regulat…

Egypt: Thousands Referred to Terrorism Courts Amid Absence of Fair Trial Safeguards and Deepening Crisis of Judicial Independence  - Egyptian Front for Human Rights

Early May marked the beginning of the trials of defendants referred to the terrorism circuit courts over the past eight months, a development which has thus far underscored the absence of the rule of law in Egypt while reinforcing the public’s loss of confidence in the justice system.  Over 6000 people in  at least 186 cases were referred to the terrorism courts by the Supreme State Security Prosecution during this eight-month period, which port…

Cairo - Arabic Jerusalem: 11 independent human rights organizations criticized the referral by the Egyptian authorities of at least 186 cases involving more than 6,000 accused to the terrorism chambers during May. In a statement, the organizations said that this was a warning of collective sentencing that would reinforce the absence of the rule of law and deepen the lack of confidence in the justice system, as a result of trials lacking [...].

Egypt: NGOs Forum Adopts Report by The CFJ on the Human Rights Situation in Egypt on the Margins of the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission - Committee for Justice

Egypt: NGOs Forum Adopts Report by The CFJ on the Human Rights Situation in Egypt on the Margins of the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission The Committee for Justice (The CFJ) submitted a detailed report on the human rights situation in Egypt, which was accepted during the proceedings of the NGOs Forum held alongside the 83rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which took place in Banjul, Gambia fr

Trials began early May in the cases referred by the Supreme State Security Prosecution to terrorism circuits over the past eight months. The Egyptian authorities referred 186 cases to... The post Egypt: Thousands of referrals to terrorism circuits where fair trial guarantees are absent and confidence in the independence of the judiciary is lacking appeared first on Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies.