About me
Nour Fahmy is an Egyptian human rights lawyer, appellate advocate, and legal researcher with more than a decade of experience in strategic litigation, human rights advocacy, criminal justice, and legal research.
He earned his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Helwan University in 2001 and began his legal career in private practice before transitioning to human rights law in 2012. Since then, he has represented journalists, human rights defenders, political activists, civil society actors, and individuals facing politically sensitive prosecutions before Egyptian courts.
Mr. Fahmy served as a Lawyer and later Director of the Legal Unit at the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), where he worked on landmark cases involving freedom of expression, media freedom, freedom of assembly, and civic rights. He subsequently joined the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) as a Legal Researcher and Human Rights Lawyer before leading its Criminal Justice Unit. Since 2020, he has served as a Legal Adviser to ECRF.
His professional practice focuses on freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, criminal justice reform, fair trial guarantees, environmental rights, women’s rights, and the protection of vulnerable and marginalized communities.
Throughout his career, he has participated in the legal defense of numerous high-profile cases involving journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders, political detainees, and civil society actors. His work combines litigation, legal research, trial monitoring, documentation of human rights violations, and policy-oriented advocacy.
In addition to legal practice, Mr. Fahmy has authored legal studies, policy papers, and human rights reports, and has delivered lectures and training programs on international human rights law, constitutional rights, trial monitoring, documentation methodologies, and legal advocacy.