Egypt: Rights Group and its Director Threatened and Smeared

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Ahmed Salem, director of the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights. © Private (Washington DC) – The Egyptian authorities and affiliated groups have responded to recent reporting by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, an Egyptian human rights group with a focus on Egypt’s militarized North Sinai, with a smear campaign and threats against the group and its director, Ahmed Salem, 18 civil society organizations denounced today. Since mid-February 2024, several government and progovernment figures and entities have engaged in an aggressive smear campaign against the Sinai…

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