Egypt’s NCHR receives Saudi human rights delegation

CAIRO – 29 January 2020: The head of the Egyptian National Council for human rights (NCHR), Mohammed Fayik, met Wednesday at the council’s headquarter a Saudi delegation of the kingdom’s Human Rights Commission, who visit Egypt to have an idea of NCHR’s experiment in promoting human rights culture in a way that meets the enforced laws and regulations.

Fayik received the delegation and asserted the historic relations between the two countries and the importance of exchanging expertise between the NCHR and the Saudi Human Rights Commission in order to protect human rights values.

Fayik has previously participated in a seminar titled “law state” that was launched by the NCHR in cooperation with the Arab Organization for Human Rights, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, and Kemet Boutros Ghali foundation for peace and knowledge.

The seminar included representatives from the ministries of foreign affairs, interior, justice, social solidarity, along with the public prosecution and the parliament’s human rights committee. It discussed demands to curb remand detentions and find replacing precautionary measures.