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Wael Abbas (Arabic: وائل عباس, IPA: [ˈwæːʔel ʕæbˈbæːs]) (born 14 November 1974 in Egypt) is an internationally renowned Egyptian journalist, blogger, and human rights activist, who blogs at Misr Digital (Egyptian Awareness). He reported an incident of mob harassment of women, and broadcast several videos of police brutality. His actions led to the conviction of police for torture, but he has been harassed by the Egyptian government, and his accounts with YouTube and Yahoo were closed. YouTube has since restored his account and most of his videos. Facebook had deleted Wael's account but it has since been restored.
In September 2007, his YouTube account was shut down. All the videos he had sent to YouTube were no longer available. They included videos of police brutality, voting irregularities and anti-government protests. About 12 or 13 were of violence in police stations. He was shocked by YouTube's decision.
Yahoo had shut down two of his email accounts, accusing him of being a spammer.
ICFJ Webinar: Reporting on Early Childhood Development
ICFJ's HIV Prevention Reporting Fellowship Webinar
ICFJ Professional Fellows from Latin America, Spring 2015
Investigative Reporter Dedicates Award to Russian Whistleblower
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Wael Abbas' speech at ICFJ Dinner and standing ovation
2016 ICFJ Integrity in Journalism Award Winner: Rukmini Callimachi
ICFJ 2010
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ICFJ Announces 2008 Knight International Journalism Awardees
On September 8, the International Center for Journalists partnered with the World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/sief-trust-fund) to present a webinar on covering early childhood development. The webinar focused on early growth and development, including issues such as nutrition, health care, early learning and stimulation for young children. Two leading experts offered information and advice to journalists who cover the issues. The webinar was offered in connection with ICFJ’s Reporting Contest on Early Childhood Development, which is open to journalists in Africa, Asia and Latin America (www.icfj.org/childhealth). Experts: Roger Thurow, former Wall Street Journal correspondent and currently a senior fellow with the Chicago Council on Glo...
Interested in applying for ICFJ's HIV Prevention Reporting Fellowship? Participate in the upcoming webinar and have your questions on Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) answered. The webinar will be broadcast on ICFJ's YouTube page. Join Chris Conte, the lead trainer, and ICFJ staff to learn more about this opportunity: http://www.icfj.org/our-work/hiv-prevention-reporting-fellowship
ICFJ completed the first phase of its four-part ECA program: bringing 16 fellows from Latin America to the U.S. for a four-week program in May and June 2015. This included a three-week internship at a U.S. digital communication organization, including AJ+, The Miami Herald, Mother Jones and Fusion. The fellows put together a short video about their experiences at their host media organizations.
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Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron warned of a global assault on free expression in his keynote speech at the International Center for Journalists' (ICFJ's) 30th Anniversary Awards Dinner. Baron said “serious attention” should be given to the safety of journalists because autocratic governments and terrorist groups alike “see killing, kidnapping, maiming, and jailing reporters as all in a day’s work.”
Wael Abbas' acceptance speech at ICFJ Award Dinner November 13 2007 Wael Abbas received the 2007 Knight International Award for Excellence in Journalism
Rukmini Callimachi of The New York Times was named the inaugural recipient of The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) Integrity in Journalism Award in partnership with the Aurora Prize. She received the award during the inaugural ceremony of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity on April 24 in Yerevan, Armenia. The ICFJ Integrity in Journalism Award celebrates the courage, commitment and impact of a reporter on the front lines of the world’s crisis zones. Recipients demonstrate unrivaled courage in covering the plight of imperiled communities and an unwavering commitment to integrity, freedom and justice. Callimachi has exposed the horrific institutionalization of sex slavery by ISIS, linked child labor in gold mines in Senegal to banks in Switzerland, and revealed massacres...
Dear Icfj I am so honored to have started my path of live in the other side of the Atlantic with you. After 29years in Europe, you were my bridge to Latin America, and now to the entire America. Mariano Blejman, Miguel Paz and Gustavo Faleiros, I'm your biggest fan! I loved to work with you and most of all I've not only learned a big deal, as I had a great time! I'm looking forward to more ways we can find to keep co-working and co-existing, you're become my true friends, my family, my fellows. To the entire ICFJ team thank you very much for all hard work, for believing and supporting me and my ideas, that I hope now can become our ideas! Team spirit rules as always, I can only say it has been a pleasure and honor to have been part of your team! Kiss Kiss bang bang Mary Saints
Belarus' Pioneering Editor and Ugandan Human Rights Reporter Named 2008 Knight International Journalism Award Winners Göteborg, Sweden -- The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) announced that Belarus editor and free-press champion Aliaksei Karol and Ugandan human rights reporter Frank Nyakairu are the winners of the 2008 Knight International Journalism Award. They will be honored along with Founders Award recipient John F. Burns of The New York Times at the annual ICFJ Awards Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, on November 12.
Interview with award-winning Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas - see more at http://www.hamsaweb.org/crime
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Rami Abdelrahman interviews Wael Abbas in Tahrir
I met Wael Abbas in February 2013, almost 5 months ago, in Morocco during the Swedish Institute's Alumni meeting for the "Young Leaders Visitors Program" and interviewed him back then about many matters...mainly about Wael Abbas beyond politics and social media. http://afrahnasser.blogspot.se/ https://twitter.com/Afrahnasser
Wael Abbas interviewed by The Hub in Budapest, Hungary 2008
CNN Report On Wael Abbas and misrdigital.com
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http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/26292 Solidarity statement from Egyptian HRD, award winning blogger and journalist Wael Abbas on International Day of Solidarity with Egyptian Detainees. Support human rights defenders at risk: www.frontlinedefenders.org/donate