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It was crucial. It was an essential component of the revolution. All this is about rights.

— Aida Seif el-Dawla

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The only way for there to be no torture reports is for the state to stop torturing people.

We won’t stop working on fighting torture, even if they shut down the clinic.

If political parties adopted the principles of human rights, we would see a huge difference because there are things that cannot be done by human rights defenders alone.

If you are against the death penalty, you are against it all the way. So you would be against the death sentence for Hosni Mubarak and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi alike.

Human rights activism won’t replace political activism. But the human rights umbrella can unite people of different ideologies only if those people are genuinely committed to human rights without wavering.

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