REUTERS-A prominent
Egyptian human rights lawyer said that airport security prevented him from
boarding a flight to Jordan on Thursday and told him his name was on a travel
ban list.
Rights
activists in Egypt say they are facing the worst repression ever amid a wider
campaign under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to erase freedoms won in the 2011
uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Najad
al-Borei, a human rights lawyer who helped draft an anti-torture bill, told
Reuters by telephone that he had been turned back in his attempt to board a
flight to Amman.
"I travel
to Jordan each month because my wife is there. This time the security summoned
me at the airport and told me that the General Prosecutor had added my name to
a travel ban list," Borei said.
He said he was
given no reason for the travel ban, though added that he was facing charges
including obstructing government institutions and spreading false news after he
helped draft an anti-torture bill for parliament in 2015.
REUTERS
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