Sherif Azer

Research Associate
Centre for Criminology

Biography

Dr Sherif Azer is an Egyptian human rights activist and a Research Associate with the DPRU working on the death penalty in Egypt. Since 2019, he has been the Director of Programmes at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms ECRF, with specialised focus on minority rights, death penalty, freedom of expression, and support of human rights defenders. He is also a teacher of international refugee law and international human rights law at the American University in Cairo.

Research Interests

Human rights, international law, minority rights, death penalty, freedom of expression, and support of human rights defenders, international refugee law, Egypt, Middle East.

Research projects & programmes

Centre for Criminology