{"id":206914,"date":"2025-09-12T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cpj-partners-urge-un-not-to-elect-egypt-to-human-rights-council\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:01:23","slug":"egypt-cpj-partners-urge-un-not-to-elect-egypt-to-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-cpj-partners-urge-un-not-to-elect-egypt-to-human-rights-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: CPJ, Partners Urge UN Not to Elect Egypt to Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 22 other international and Egyptian rights organizations in urging United Nations member states not to vote for Egypt in October&#8217;s elections to the U.N. Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The letter highlights Egypt&#8217;s alarming human rights record, noting that the country regularly ranks among the world&#8217;s top 10 jailers of journalists, with 17 behind bars in CPJ&#8217;s latest annual prison census on December 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Rewarding the Egyptian government with a seat on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120057.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 22 other international and Egyptian rights organizations in urging United Nations member states not to vote for Egypt in October&#8217;s elections to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The letter highlights Egypt&#8217;s alarming human rights record, noting that the country regularly ranks among the world&#8217;s top 10 jailers of journalists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6158,14408,4697,415,6475,3575,257,5189,5100,254,10525],"class_list":["post-206914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-council","tag-cpj","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-elect","tag-human","tag-news","tag-partners","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}