Bahey Eldin Hassan

Director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, living in exile in France for the past six years. Within 11 months he was sentenced in two politicized trials by Egyptian courts to a total of 18 years in jail for his criticism of the human rights situation in Egypt and the judiciary’s failure to protecting victims and holding perpetrators accountable.

Op-ed “The Sick Man of the 21^st Century” Will Not Die in Peace Bahey Eldin Hassan · October 2020 The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is, with the exception of Africa, the part of the world least affected by Covid-19. Yet the economic and political repercussions of the pandemic presage a major disaster whose impact will be felt lastingly-beyond the region, with the emergence of (…)
Egypt. The Permanent Coup Bahey Eldin Hassan · April 2019 The Egyptian Parliament is expected to adopt earlier this week a constitutional reform that will eradicate the latest achievements of the 2011 revolution and allow Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to remain in power until. . . 2030.
Throughout the six years that marked President Abdelfatah al-Sisi’s (…)
The European Union is Responsible for the Refugee Crisis Bahey Eldin Hassan · May 2018 The European Union’s support for dictatorships in the Arab world is often justified by the fact that authoritarian regimes are a bulwark against terrorism and illegal immigration. In reality, the opposite is true.
The issue of the EU’s and European States’ policies on refugees and irregular (…)