The Freedom Initiative’s “#FreeThemAll” projections in Washington, D.C., and New York City were featured in a Middle East Eye article published on November 11, 2022. Entitled, “Cop27: Plight of Egypt’s political prisoners sparks global #FreeThemAll campaign,” the article covers the Global Day of Solidarity with Egypt’s political prisoners, which took place during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), and links to photos of messages of solidarity that the Freedom Initiative projected onto the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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The Freedom Initiative’s Communications Specialist, Madeleine Hall, published an opinion piece at Doha News on November 6, 2022, titled COP27 kicks off, but at expense of Egypt’s activists in terrible conditions behind bars.
Can freeing a small fraction of Egypt’s political prisoners really be considered progress?
Two US citizens, a mother and her daughter, have been trapped under an arbitrary travel ban in Egypt since 2018. US officials recently recommended that she act like a “better guest” of the country. Is that what President Biden meant when he said he’d put human rights at the forefront of US foreign policy?
Today, many of Egypt’s brightest minds – individuals who are best equipped to tackle the most pressing issues facing our planet – are rotting in prison cells, unsure of when, if ever, they will be reunited with their loved ones.
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