“Hero” is becoming an awfully loose term these days.
A group of ten “human rights NGOs,” including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, has nominated Egyptian activist Mona Seif for this year’s Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. Seif’s admirers are thrilled:
Outstanding, huh? Let’s take a closer look at the woman being considered a human rights champion:
https://twitter.com/Monasosh/status/88576464907272192
https://twitter.com/Monasosh/status/88579990513397761
https://twitter.com/Monasosh/status/269013365727301632
https://twitter.com/Monasosh/status/269499789400477697
She even condemned Ennals Award committee member Human Rights Watch:
https://twitter.com/Monasosh/status/270539581324156930
Is this really the face of international human rights?
UN Watch, a Geneva-based organization that monitors the United Nations, has written a letter to the executive director of Human Rights Watch condemning the decision to honor Seif, a “preacher of terror.”
Other Egyptian human rights activists have registered their outrage at Seif’s nomination:
Earlier this year, the U.S. State Department decided to honor Egyptian anti-Semite and terrorist sympathizer Samira Ibrahim as a “Woman of Courage.” Fortunately, after being faced with righteous backlash, the department reversed its decision. Let’s hope the Martin Ennals Award committee does the same.
(Hat tip: Susan Stiles)
