Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 14:41 Yara Sallam: A prisoner of passion and human rights By: Hanan Elbadawi Translated by: Lina AttalahDina Hussein Many speak professionally of Yara Sallam, 28, as a skilled lawyer and distinguished researcher, but some also speak of her impressive passion, one that would stay with her despite everything. The prosecutor ordered Yaras detention for four days pending investigations, after she was arrested in Heliopolis last Saturday for participating in a protest against the Protest Law. She is now facing trial that is set to start on Sunday. After he heard the news, Ahmed Nassar, one of Yaras former colleagues wrote on his Facebook page: I cant make how someone as pure and friendly as Yara can be incarcerated. Nassar explained how he was tied to Yara through a friendship that was born only a few days after he met her. Yara is undoubtedly one of the rare people towards whom you get a sense of comfort and trust. When she returned to Cairo following the 2011 revolution, she joined the Nazra Institute for Feminist Studies, where she managed the Women Human Rights Defenders Program, which focused on providing legal, medical and moral support to women engaged in public matters, preserving their space in the public field, and supporting them in light of the violations they face at a time of increasing violations against women in public space. This program that Yara headed for a year was one of the first tools to document violations against women, provide necessary support for them and to work on limiting these violations. This work led to her nomination for the Human Rights Defenders in North Africa prize for 2014.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:41:15 +0000
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