While world leaders met in Sharm el-Sheikh for COP27, British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist and writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah began a full hunger strike. He is imprisoned for “spreading false news” and has been denied access to diplomatic and legal...
Freedom of expression has dominated the news agenda this week but not in a good way, says Ruth Smeeth
Attendees at COP27 need to raise the case of the British-Egyptian writer before it’s too late, say the activist’s sisters
Human rights groups who have been campaigning for several years for the release of the blogger and human rights defender can finally celebrate
Index and nine other organisations call for Moka’s release as he receives the 2021 Freedom of Expression Awards
Abdelrahman Tarek is the winner in the 2021 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Campaigning category
Winners from Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, Niger and the UK named at ceremony
Imprisoned Egyptian human rights campaigner, Russian feminist performance artist, and persecuted Djiboutian journalists among the shortlisted candidates
Karim Ennarah, EIPR’s criminal justice unit director, is facing fabricated charges of joining a terrorist group and spreading fake news
The arrest of the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and two staff is a shameful attack on human rights