My Wife Was Imprisoned For Speaking Out Against Sexual Harassment In Egypt
(World News Egypt)

As a human rights researcher, I’ve interviewed so many people who have been detained, including their family members. Every interview is heart-breaking, but I never fully appreciated their pain until I experienced it myself. Seeing it and living it is a thousand times worse than I could have ever imagined. When my wife Amal was arrested, I was shocked and gutted. She didn’t do anything that was dangerous. She didn’t commit any crime at all. She was just speaking out against sexual harassment. But in Egypt, if you speak out as a survivor,...