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Esraa abdel fattah biography

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Case History: Esraa Abdel Fattah

On the morning of 13 January 2015, police officers at Cairo International Airport stopped human rights defender Ms Esraa Abdel Fattah from boarding a flight to Germany, and informed her that this was due to a judicial travel ban issued against her. Esraa Abdel Fattah had not received prior notification of the travel ban.

The refusal to allow Esraa Abdel Fattah to fly is one of a series of travel bans imposed on human rights defenders in Egypt, including against Messrs Hossameldin Ali and Ahmed Ghonim, President and Vice President of the Egyptian Democratic Academy, respectively. Those defenders were stopped at the Cairo International Airport on 5 December 2014 and informed of the travel bans issued against them. Several weeks later, after repeated contact with the Office of the Public Prosecutor, they were told that the ban was ordered in connection with an ongoing judicial investigation into illegal foreign funding allegedly received by human rights organisations, which began in 2011. However, neither defender has been summoned for interrogation

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Esraa Abdel Fattah

Esraa Abdel Fattah is a leading Egyptian democracy and human rights activist and a prominent spokesperson for the youth protest movement in Egypt. She is a journalist at al-Tahrir newspaper and a former project manager at the Egyptian Democratic Academy, a non-governmental organization that promotes the use of new media tools to foster democracy and human rights. She is the founder of the “Free Egyptian Women Group” for women’s political empowerment and co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement—a branch of the group that was behind the mass protests that brought down President Hosni Mubarak. In April 2008, she was imprisoned for her role in organizing what became known as the April 6th Facebook Protests, a mobilization of thousands of young people demanding political change. Following her arrest, Ms. Abdel Fattah drew the attention of foreign and local media; dubbed “Facebook Girl,” she soon became a symbol of resistance and resilience against corruption and injustice. In 2010, she won the New Generation Democratic Activist Award from Freedom House. Ms. Abdel Fa

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Israa Abdel Fattah

Egyptian activist

Esraa Abdel Fattah (Arabic: إسراء عبد الفتاح, IPA:[ʔesˈɾɑːʔʕæbdelfætˈtæːħ,ˈʔesɾɑ-]; also called Facebook Girl);[1][2] born 1978[3][4] is an Egyptian internet activist and blogger.

Esraa worked as a human resources administrator,[1] when she co-founded the April 6 Youth Movement Egypt in 2008, a group that was made to support the workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra, an industrial town, who were planning to strike on April 6. This group gradually became a popular political movement.[1]

Since October 2019 she has been detained without trial on alleged terrorism charges. In July 2021 she received a Courage Tribute Award from the World Movement for Democracy.[5] She was released from prison on July 17, 2021.[6]

2008 arrest

She was arrested by Egyptian security in 2008. She drew the attention of few Egyptian newspapers challenging by this the state's censorship policy, turning her into an overnight symbol for resistance and resilience a

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