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Hamdi El-Zaeem
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- 1Rights Groups Demand Release of Photojournalist Hamdi El-Zaeem▼Joint Statement: Ahead of His Trial Hearing, Rights Groups Call for the Immediate Release of Photojournalist Hamdi El-Zaeem After Ten Years of Deprivation of Liberty
A coalition of human rights organizations has issued a joint statement calling for the immediate release of Palestinian photojournalist Hamdi El-Zaeem, ahead of a scheduled trial hearing. The groups say he has now been deprived of liberty for ten years, and are urging that he be freed without further delay.
- 2Security delays prolong photojournalist Hamdy El-Zaeem's decade-long ordeal●Security delays extend photojournalist Hamdy El-Zaeem’s decade-long ordeal
Egyptian photojournalist Hamdy El-Zaeem remains caught in a drawn-out legal ordeal, as repeated security-related delays extend his case into a second decade. The measure, a common practice in cases involving journalists in Egypt, keeps him in legal limbo without resolution, drawing attention from press freedom advocates who view it as part of a wider pattern of restrictions on media workers.