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Mohamed Zaree

Mohamed Zaree giving a talk with the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies in Egypt.

Meet the winner of the ‘Nobel for human rights’ that Egypt doesn’t want you to know about

October 6, 2017Conflict

Mohamed Zaree has won the Martin Ennals Award announced in Geneva, but Egypt wouldn’t let him leave the country to receive it.

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