Egyptian activist wins international human rights award
None
An Egyptian activist who is under criminal investigation for his human rights work and is banned from travelling abroad has won an international rights award, organisers said on Tuesday.
Mohamed Zaree, 37, the Egypt office director of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, won the Martin Ennals Award, a prize given each year by a jury of 10 global rights groups.
He was unable to travel to Geneva to pick up the award at a ceremony on Tuesday as he has been banned from travel since May 2016 and faces charges that could carry a life in prison sentence for "receiving funds from foreign entities to harm national security".
