Mohamed El-Baqer
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Story behind
Mohamed El-Baqer is a human rights lawyer from Egypt. He is the director of the Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms, founded in 2014. It is a non-governmental, independent legal and human rights organisation with a focus on four Programmes: 1) Criminal Justice 2) Student Rights and Academic Freedoms; 3) Refugees; 4) and Minorities. All these Programmes are implemented through legal support and strategic litigation, research, monitoring and documentation, advocacy activities and capacity-building.
Mohamed is known for his relentless advocacy to protect and empower rights, freedom and justice for all and has received several prestigious awards, recognising his work as a human rights lawyer and commitment to the rule of law.
For the Universal Periodic Review of Egypt in 2019, Mohamed’s organisation submitted several joint reports highlighting the human rights situation in the country.
What happened
Mohamed was arrested from the prosecution’s premises while carrying out his professional activities in 2019. He was arbitrarily detained on terrorism and national security charges.
He spent four years in prison in Egypt before being released in July 2023 after being granted a presidential pardon.
Nonetheless, his name was listed on a terrorism list in November 2020 for 5 years. This means that despite being released in 2023, Mohamed remains on a travel ban and his assets have been frozen. He is also banned from doing any civil work until next November.
While Mohamed’s name should be removed from the list next November, he remains at risk of the court’s decision to list him again for another 5 years.
Travel bans in Egypt take three different forms:
- Listing on the terrorist list: as in the case of Mohamed – this list includes more than 4’000 people who have different legal situations)
- Public Prosecutor’s order of travel ban and/or assets freeze which has no time limit
- Travel Ban at the airport without any formal legal reason
What do we want
We want the Egyptian government to remove Mohamed from the terrorist list. We want States to hold their peer accountable and publicly name Mohamed’s case, also showing solidarity for him.
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- Story behind
Mohamed El-Baqer is a human rights lawyer from Egypt. He is the director of the Adalah Center for Rights and Freedoms, founded in 2014. It is a non-governmental, independent legal and human rights organisation with a focus on four Programmes: 1) Criminal Justice 2) Student Rights and Academic Freedoms; 3) Refugees; 4) and Minorities. All these Programmes are implemented through legal support and strategic litigation, research, monitoring and documentation, advocacy activities and capacity-building.
Mohamed is known for his relentless advocacy to protect and empower rights, freedom and justice for all and has received several prestigious awards, recognising his work as a human rights lawyer and commitment to the rule of law.
For the Universal Periodic Review of Egypt in 2019, Mohamed’s organisation submitted several joint reports highlighting the human rights situation in the country.
- What happened
Mohamed was arrested from the prosecution’s premises while carrying out his professional activities in 2019. He was arbitrarily detained on terrorism and national security charges.
He spent four years in prison in Egypt before being released in July 2023 after being granted a presidential pardon.
Nonetheless, his name was listed on a terrorism list in November 2020 for 5 years. This means that despite being released in 2023, Mohamed remains on a travel ban and his assets have been frozen. He is also banned from doing any civil work until next November.
While Mohamed’s name should be removed from the list next November, he remains at risk of the court’s decision to list him again for another 5 years.
Travel bans in Egypt take three different forms:
- Listing on the terrorist list: as in the case of Mohamed – this list includes more than 4’000 people who have different legal situations)
- Public Prosecutor’s order of travel ban and/or assets freeze which has no time limit
- Travel Ban at the airport without any formal legal reason
- What do we want
We want the Egyptian government to remove Mohamed from the terrorist list. We want States to hold their peer accountable and publicly name Mohamed’s case, also showing solidarity for him.
- Call To Action
Sign the petition to the UN Secretary General so he includes Kadar in his annual report on reprisals. This is a step to lift his travel ban.
Call on UN member States to publicly raise Kadar’s case at the UN and push for accountability and redress so his travel ban is finally lifted.
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- Sign the petition
