Mahmoud Abu Zeid

[8] In the wake of the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, Zeid took photographs of protests against General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

[1][8] His work has also been reproduced by Amnesty International, Global Voices, IFEX, Index on Censorship and Open Democracy.

[2] On 8 September, an Egyptian court handed him a 5-year jail sentence which could see him leave prison "within a few days," said his lawyer Karim Abdelrady.

[20] Shawkan is a featured case in the Press Uncuffed campaign, led by Dana Priest and her students at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists to help free imprisoned journalists throughout the world by selling bracelets bearing their names and raising awareness about their cases.

[22] In 2018, UNESCO awarded Press Freedom Prize for his contributions and marked its detention as Human Rights abuse.

[23] According to Jason Stern, a senior Middle East and North Africa research associate for the CPJ, Shawkan should have never been arrested for performing his job duties.