Introduction
In 2017, Fifteen (15) Egyptians were sentenced to death by exceptional military
court that lacks the least justice principles. Not only that, but by the beginning
of 2018, 4 innocent people were hanged in the case known as Kafr Al-Sheikh
Stadium. And by the end of 2018, 40 Egyptians were executed by security forces.
By December 2018 the number of executed victims reached 81. Moreover, the
year 2018 witnessed a lot of bloodshed by security forces and the victims were
always innocent civilians accused – mistakenly in many cases –of opposing the
regime.
Not only extrajudicial killing that increased during 2018, but other types of
violations increased too.
Many local and international rights organizations documented those violations.
the UN Human Rights Organization alongside other international rights experts
called on the international community to put pressure on the Egyptian regime
to stop such violations. Also, the European Parliament condemned the Egyptian
regime’s crackdown on people and the worrying decline of human rights in
Egypt. However the Egyptian authorities didn’t care about all those calls and
instead continued the crackdown policies accusing whoever opposes their
policies of being “Muslim Brotherhood” even foreigners .. strangely enough such
the Egyptian regime accused international organizations like Human Rights
Watch and Amnesty International of partiality and “collaborating” with the
Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, the regime’s media outlets launched a fierce
campaign against the regime’s opponents. Meanwhile Under the pretext of
“fighting terrorism”, security forces committed atrocities indiscriminately
against innocent civilians. That included extrajudicial killing, forced
disappearance, arbitrary detention, torture in prisons and detention centers. In
the line of those practices the Egyptian regime’s atrocities included infants,
children, elderly, those with illnesses and old women… Aliaa Mudhar, 14 months
old was, and Abdulrahman Umar Rifaaie 6 months old were victims of forced
disappearance too.
All categories of Egyptian societies have been hurt by the regime including
lawyers, teachers, children, workers, students, journalists and university
professors… despite all that, the regime’s violation policies continue with no
mercy. Meanwhile voices are suppressed and there has been no way out, which
led many Egyptians to commit suicide, others adopted violent ideas and
therefore the regime took advantage of those cases and meanwhile making up
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a scenario terrorism threats in the country and claiming that the regime is
fighting terrorism.
taking advantage of western backing for the Egyptian regime which is seeking a
life time in power, it is NOT showing any sign of alleviating the human suffering
in the country. The only way to decrease those violations is if the western
regimes stop supporting the Egyptian regime, when human values become
superior to economic and political interests.
This horrible numbers of violations documented in this report show only little of
the Egyptian people’s suffering which is exacerbating by poverty, hunger,
diseases, injustice, oppression and tyranny.

Osama Khalifa                     Ashraf Tawfik
General Manager             General Secretary
Najda Organization            Najda Organization
For Human Rights                   For Human Rights