Report · Lead researcher
Wherever They Go
أينما ذهبوا: القمع العابر للحدود واستهداف المصريين في الخارج
Wherever They Go: Transnational Repression and the Targeting of Egyptians Abroad
- Publisher
- Egyptian Human Rights Forum (EHRF)
- Launch
- Press conference at the Press Club Brussels Europe, February 2026
- Period covered
- January 2022 to September 2025
- Research team
- Abdelrahman Ayyash, Sara Hamza, Mohamed Ebeid
- Review and supervision
- Moataz El Fegiery, Samar Elhussieny
- Editions
- Arabic (90 pages) and English (93 pages)
Arabic edition
English edition
About the report
The report documents what it describes as a systematic campaign by the Egyptian authorities against dissidents and human rights defenders living abroad, from January 2022 to September 2025.
It sets out the forms this takes: denial of documents and consular services, stripping of citizenship, trials in absentia, terrorism listings, digital surveillance and smear campaigns, extradition requests through security cooperation and Interpol, and pressure on families in Egypt.
It closes with recommendations to the Egyptian government, host states and the international community.
Scope and method
The team built an internal database of cases, updated as new documentation came in, and ran a survey and remote interviews over secure channels, with consent and without names.
It tracked public reports about those targeted and their families. A case went in only when evidence from several sources agreed. The report says it describes recurring patterns, not a complete inventory of violations.
Figures from the report’s methodology section.
His role
Ayyash led the research team and is listed first among the researchers in both editions.
In the press
QuotedThe New Arab13 February 2026English
Egypt targets dissidents abroad, punishes families at home: report
On the launch of Wherever They Go. He speaks as the report’s lead researcher.