Egypt's crackdown on dissenting voices

Egypt’s approach to free speech has seen it in the headlines. Mozn Hassan, a well-known female activist, has been banned from travelling to a human rights conference in Beirut. This crackdown on dissent also saw the deportation, also last week, of Liliane Daoud. The British-Lebanese TV host was not given an official explanation for her deportation, after five years of working with OnTV.

Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has called on the UN’s Human Rights Council to suspend Saudi Arabia, citing its leadership of a coalition against the Houthis in Yemen. Airstrikes carried out by the coalition are deemed, in the report, to be unlawful, killing at least 913 civilans.