Abdelrahman Tarek is the winner in the 2021 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Campaigning category
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CATEGORY: Egypt
Champions of free expression celebrated at Index on Censorship awards
Winners from Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and the UK named at ceremony
Index on Censorship announces shortlist for 2021 Freedom of Expression Awards
Imprisoned Egyptian human rights campaigner, Russian feminist performance artist, and persecuted Djiboutian journalists among the shortlisted candidates
“His only crime is to believe that Egyptians deserve the most basic of human rights”
Karim Ennarah, EIPR’s criminal justice unit director, is facing fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news
Why the arrest of Egypt’s Gasser Abed El Razek is so troubling
The arrest of the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and two staff is a shameful attack on human rights
Laugh and the World Laughs with Me
Laugh and the World Laughs with Me is an intimate short story of a young woman who has a schizophrenic brother, set against the backdrop of the Tahrir Square demonstrations, from Egyptian writer Eman Abdelrahim.
ECRF: We believe in human rights for all Egyptians and we are willing to pay the price
The Egyptian government has waged an organised campaign against independent civil society groups and has become increasingly hostile to dissent. ECRF is one of the few human rights organisations still operating in the country.
On International Women’s Day, a call for justice for Egyptian human rights defender Amal Fathy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] On International Women's Day Doughty Street Chambers and Index on Censorship renew calls for the threat of arrest to be dropped for Egyptian women's rights defender Amal Fathy. Ms Fathy, who made a video about...
Threat of arrest must be dropped for Egyptian women’s rights defender Amal Fathy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Index on Censorship, the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) and counsel at Doughty Street Chambers have filed further information at the request of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention...
ECRF: As long as there are people defending human rights in Egypt, there is hope
The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms, winner of the 2018 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Campaigning, is one of the few remaining human rights organisations in Egypt