This report offers the collective testimony of the Forum for Independent Human Rights NGOs on the human rights situation in Egypt. Although the report focuses on the last four years, it relies on the products of nearly a quarter century of human rights advocacy and activism, both on the ground and in the legal arena. Since this report cannot document all the pertinent developments and abuses witnessed during the period under review

Human rights organizations and activists involved in the campaign in solidarity with Sayed ElQemany and Hassan Hanafi and against “Hesba” cases in Egypt, said that the administrative court decided to defer the case filed by a citizen requesting the ministry of culture to withdraw the State Merit prizes that have been awarded to both intellectuals, to 19/1/2010 , giving the lawyers and human rights organizations in support of freedom of thought and scientific research time to make proceedings of legal intervention on the side of Qemany and Hanafi.

AFTE issued the first semi-annual report on freedom of thought and creativity in Egypt during the period from January to June 2009. This report docum ents the condition of freedom of thought and creativity in Egypt and the most important developments in the period from January to June 2009. The report also presents the constitutional protection for freedom of thought and creativity and the commitments on which the Egyptian government ratified under international conventions

Activists, Lawyers and human rights organizations decided to start a campaign in solidarity with Hassan Hanafi and Sayed ElQemany to support them against Hesba cases that were filed against them by some publicity seeking, mediocre, hostile to research and freedom of thought group.