EP resolutsioonid

The European Parliament adopted by 379 votes to 30, with 31 abstentions, a resolution on Egypt, in particular the sentencing of Hisham Kassem.

The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, The Left groups and Members.

Hisham Kassem is an important liberal voice in Egypt, publisher and advocate for media freedom and the rule of law.

Ahead of the December 2023 presidential election in Egypt, Mr. Kassem has played a pivotal role in founding the Free Current, a coalition of liberal opposition parties and personalities, criticising the government's economic and political record.

The resolution called for the immediate and unconditional release of Hisham Kassem, sentenced in September to six months in prison and a fine on a charge of defamation and slander for an online post criticising former Egyptian minister Abu Eita. [..]

The European Parliament adopted by 326 votes to 46, with 186 abstentions, a resolution on the human rights situation in Egypt.

The text adopted in plenary was tabled as a joint motion for a resolution by the S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA groups and members.

Parliament deeply deplored the continued lack of basic political rights and freedoms in Egypt, including in the context of the holding of COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh. It regretted that COP27 did not lead to an improvement in the human rights situation. It condemned in the strongest terms the Egyptian authorities' censorship, harassment and intimidation of representatives of Egypt's civil society, which took place even on international UN premises, as well as the new wave of arrests and detentions in the context of COP27.

It firmly condemned the continued arbitrary and pre-trial detention of tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience in Egypt, many of whom are detained in inhuman conditions without access to a fair trial or basic rights.