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Egypt’s crackdown on human rights workers
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:33:33
Publish Date: 2021-06-21 17:30:36
Description: Ten years since the Arab spring rocked Egypt and removed its president, the country is still detaining human rights workers and locking up political prisoners. Karim Ennarah, a human rights worker for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was at a beach resort in South Sinai when he was arrested and accused of joining a terrorist group and ‘spreading false news’. He tells Anushka Asthana his arrest was only the beginning of his separation from his British wife
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