Human rights in focus: A series of conversations

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 – 13:42 By: Mai Shams El-Din, Mada Masr اقرأها بالعربية This is an introduction to a series of interviews by Mada Masr with human rights workers in Egypt that attempts to situate the struggle for rights within the context of a larger movement and the contest over political space. Many human rights workers have felt targeted by the

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Update: Egypt confiscates revolution-time graffiti book for “instigating revolt”

Egypt Independent Mohamed Mostafa   Egypt’s customs services in Alexandria have seized 400 copies of  “Walls of Freedom”, a book depicting Egypt’s street graffitti art in the context of the 2011 uprising,  for “instigating revolt,” says the Finance Ministry.   Ahmed al-Sayyad, the ministry’s undersecretary, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the book contains elements that give “advice on confronting police and army forces,”

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