MUHAMMAD EBAID

Experienced Human Rights Researcher and Legal Analyst with over ten years in the field, specializing in human rights and legal analysis.

Holder of a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democracy, with a proven track record in legal research and human rights advocacy across the MENA region. Accomplished lecturer and public speaker with engagements at institutions and universities like the American University in Cairo, Amsterdam University and Raoul Wallenberg institute and forums including the European Parliament and the UN Human Rights Council. Committed to advancing human rights and justice.

• Member at The Swedish Institute Alumni Network since 2024
• Member at Global Campus Alumni (GCA), EMA Alumni Association since 2022
• Former guest of Protect Defenders EU - Brussels, Belgium, 2022
• Former guest in Shelter City Program for Human rights defenders at risk - Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2020-2021
• Admitted to Egyptian Bar Association - Since 2016

• Universal Jurisdiction, Redress UK / May 2024
• SI Leader Lab, Swedish Institute - Stockholm,Sweden/ Apr- Nov 2024.
• International Human Rights Mechanisms for Civil Society Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa Region, OHCHR - Geneva, Switzerland / Oct 2023.
• Intersectionality and integration of different gender identities and minorities in the defence of human rights in Egypt, Egyptian Forum for Human Rights - Brussels, Belgium / Sept 2023.
• Social mobilisation for human rights defenders, Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies- Lille, France / July 2023.

• Policy Paper, 02/08/2023 I Analysis of Legislative Policy Patterns in the Post-June 30 Period: The Instrumentalization of Law to Serve Political Repression. Egyptian Human Rights Forum – In-Exile Debates series.
• Report, 02/08/2023 (co-author) I Egypt: Alternative report to the UN Committee against Torture.
• Report, 22/05/2023 (co-author) | Made in Italy to suppress in Egypt: The role of Italian small arms and light weapons in fueling human rights violations. EgyptWide 2022.
• Master Thesis, 02/08/2023 I Legalizing repression : how repressive regimes use the law to legitimize civil and political rights violations, to ensure impunity and to undermine democracy and the rule of law. The case of Egypt. Global Campus of Human Rights 2023.
• Report, 21/11/2022 I Undermining the public sphere and its relationship to restricting the work of environmental organizations. ECRF 2022.
• Report, 21/01/2022 (co-author) I Criminalizing Minds: Egyptian Scholars in the Regime’s Target. EgyptWide 2022.
• Draft Law, 2020 (co-author) I Towards proposing new articles for registration with the Journalists Syndicate. EOJM, 2020.
• Report, 20/04/2020 I The Deficiency and Unconstitutionality of Articles in Egyptian Law related to Discrimination. ECRF, 2019.
• Report, 22/04/2019 I The Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments. ECRF, 2019.
• Article, 12/03/2019 I The Controversial Egyptian Eye Banks Law: Does It Legalize Violating the Inviolability of the Body?. Legal Agenda, 2019.
• Study paper, 02/09/2018 I Silence Legislations: Did not Spare the Internet. ANHRI, 2018.

• Video, 2023 | My speech at the UN Human Rights Council side event on the human rights situation in Egypt.
• Webinar, 2023 | Does the evaluation of NHRIs need reform? YouTube, Mena Rights group. 2023.
• Podcast, 2023 | Space Podcast, “Do we need legislative reform?” the second episode. ECRF. 2023.
• Podcast, 2023 | Space Podcast, “Do we need legislative reform?” the first episode. ECRF. 2023.
• Video, 2020 | Towards a global abolition to stop the death penalty. Facebook, Stop The Death Penalty In Egypt. ECRF/Reprieve.
• Video, 2020 | Can the death penalty be stopped in Egypt?. Facebook, Stop The Death Penalty In Egypt. ECRF/ Reprieve.
• Video, 2020 | Is there a political will to stop the death penalty in Egypt?. Facebook, Stop The Death Penalty In Egypt. ECRF/Reprieve.
• TELE-INTERVENTIONS, 2019 | Egypt's time, constitutional amendments are a step to strengthen authoritarian rule. YouTube, Alarabi TV, UK. 2019.
• TELE-INTERVENTIONS, 2018 | Egypt time, TV episode about my published paper "the laws of silence do not exclude the Internet." YouTube, Alarabi TV, UK. 2018.
• TV episode, 2018 | TV episode about my published paper "the laws of silence do not exclude the Internet." YouTube. Aljazeera Mubasher, 2018.