Restrictions: Travel Ban |
Dr Suzanne Fayyad, co-founder of Al Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture, was banned from travel in the morning of 18 October 2017 by Cairo airport authorities. She was informed the ban was ordered by the investigative magistrate as she was boarding a flight to Tunisia to attend a conference on the rehabilitation of child torture victims. However, she was not informed about the reasons for the order.
On 24 May 2018, Suzanne Fayyad, together with her colleague Dr Magda Adly, was summoned to appear in front of the investigating judge as part of the case 173/2011, known as the foreign funding case against NGOs. Dr Fayyad remains under investigation although the authorities claim this case is almost closed.
As Al Nadeem highlighted in a statement, this decision came only a few weeks after the centre received the Amnesty International Germany’s Human Rights Award.
In February 2017, El Nadeem, the most prominent organisation providing support to victims of torture and violence in Cairo, had been shut down following an administrative order decreed one year before, upon instruction of the Health Ministry.