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HRW: Egypt Need to Reform Laws Used to Silence Critics
Human Rights Watch issued a statement May 3rd in which Joe Stork, HRW Deputy Director -MENA, said “Egypt’s sorry record of torture is only made worse by its practice of punishing journalists who dare to speak about it.”The statement cam
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Human Rights Watch issued a statement May 3rd in which Joe Stork, HRW Deputy Director -MENA, said “Egypt’s sorry record of torture is only made worse by its practice of punishing journalists who dare to speak about it.” Human Rights Watch Mitwalli, an Egyptian national who also reports for the London-based daily Quds al-Arabi, was convicted by a Cairo criminal court on May 2 for “possessing and giving false pictures about the internal situation in Egypt that could undermine the dignity of the country” in connection with an Al-Jazeera documentary about torture in Egypt. The court also fined her 20,000 Egyptian pounds (US$3,518). |
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