A Cairo Court judge postpones a session to look at a request to overturn the travel ban against Mozn Hassan to 14 September 2019

A Cairo Court judge postpones a session to look at a request to overturn the travel ban against Mozn Hassan to 14 September 2019

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20 Jun 2019

On 20 June 2019, a Cairo Criminal Court has decided to postpone considering a request to overturn the travel ban decision imposed on feminist activist and Executive Director of Nazra for Feminist Studies Mozn Hassan to 14 September 2019.

Hassan was banned from travelling abroad on 26 June 2016 while she was finalizing procedures for her departure at Cairo International Airport to attend and participate in an Executive Committee meeting for the WHRD Regional Coalition for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Hassan only knew about the ban decision inside the airport and was verbally informed that a travel ban was issued by the General Prosecutor in accordance to a request from the investigative judge of Case 173/2011.

It is worth mentioning that the North Cairo Elementary Court froze Hassan's personal assets and those of Nazra for Feminist Studies on 11 January 2017 in a precedent in Case 173 as Nazra is the only registered NGO to have its assets frozen, and is also the first in the history of civic associations working on women's human rights.

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