Joe Stork is the deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. Egypt has just lost one of its human rights pioneers, and Human Rights Watch has lost a dear friend, with the ...

30 August 2014 The death of Ahmad Seif el-Islam Hamad robs the Egyptian human rights movement of one of its ablest defenders in its hour of greatest need. The lawyer and activist, who died on ...

Last Saturday, the first day of the second round of Egypt’s presidential elections and one night after the Supreme Court decision dissolving parliament, I met Ahmad Seif in the rooftop café of the ...

There is so much tragedy in the Arab world these days. Activists tortured to death in Moroccan jails, Libya imploding, Egypt returned to quasi-pharaonic rule, Gaza in rubble, Syria and Iraq in a ...

One of the father figures of Egyptian social activism, Ahmed Seif el-Islam, died on Wednesday aged 63. He had been in coma for several days following heart surgery. A leading human rights lawyer whose ...

Cairo — Jailed political activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah and his sister Sanaa Seif were allowed early Sunday to visit their comatose father Ahmad Seif Hamad in hospital. Jailed on separate ...

Prominent blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah who was jailed for violating the protest law and subsequently released, and his sister Sanaa Seif who is among the 23 newly sentenced An Egyptian court has ...

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Egypt has just lost one of its human rights pioneers, and Human Rights Watch has lost a dear friend, with the passing of Ahmed Seif Al Islam on August 27, 2014, following his hospitalization for heart ...