Egypt: Travel Ban on Women’s Rights Leader

[leftynyc]

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have banned the prominent director of a women’s rights organization from traveling outside the country. On June 27, 2016, Interior Ministry passport control officers at Cairo International Airport stopped Mozn Hassan, the director of Nazra for Feminist Studies, from boarding her flight to Beirut, where she planned to attend a meeting of regional women human rights defenders.

Hassan is the fourth director of a nongovernmental organization to be banned from travel since a panel of judges reopened an investigation into the foreign funding of these groups in late 2014. That investigation escalated in the first half of 2016, as authorities have sought an increasing number of travel bans and asset freezes against human rights defenders and political activists.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/28/egypt-travel-ban-womens-rights-leader



May G-d (or the universe or whatever) protect the women who do make it to Lebanon.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Sounds like some of the same shit happening in Russia.