Basma Mostafa

Geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt als Instrument transnationaler Repression - Coalition Against Transnational Repression in Germany Frauen im Visier transnationaler Repression. Autoritäre Regime bedrohen gezielt Frauen im Exil – mit Gewalt, Einschüchterung und sexualisierten Drohungen. Die Koalition gegen transnationale Repression...

Zum heutigen #internationalenTagderBeseitigungvonGewaltgegenFrauen hat die Coalition against Transnational Repression in Germany eine Pressemitteilung herausgegeben. Sie macht auf die besondere Bedrohung von Frauen durch autoritäre Staaten aufmerksam. Wir fordern besseren Schutz für Betroffene!

Transnational Repression Escalates: Sexual Violence and Threats Against Zimbabwean Journalist in Exile in Sweden - Law and Democracy Support Foundation e.V. Law and Democracy Support Foundation (LDSF) strongly condemns the sexual and physical assaults, threats, and surveillance targeting journalist and human rights defender Sophia Tekwani and her family i...

Transnational Repression Escalates: Sexual Violence and Threats Against Zimbabwean Journalist in Exile in Sweden ldsf.info/blog/2025/11...

"Gespräch: Wo die Macht dich findet" zu sehen sind die Journalistin Basma Mostafa und RSF Advocacy Referentin Dr. Noura Chalati

Am Samstag, den 29. November, findet beim @penberlin.de Kongress ein Panel mit der ägyptischen Journalistin @basmamostafa.bsky.social und unsere Advocacy-Referentin Dr. Noura Chalati statt. Sie diskutieren, ob Autorin*innen im Exil wirklich sicher sind. [1/2]

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Think carefully before approaching me — what you see as a tool of intimidation, in reality, becomes another file that strengthens my case against the members of this network and its infrastructure enabling transnational repression against Egyptians in exile.

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I deal with this strictly through legal channels: every threat or act of harassment becomes new evidence added to ongoing complaints before the relevant authorities.

And if these methods were ever going to work on me, they would have worked three years ago.

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I have been facing this systematic campaign of transnational repression — carried out against me by the Egyptian government and its agents acting on its behalf, through its various methods which I have all experienced — since 2022.

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This happened just one day after the UN Secretary-General released his report on reprisals against human rights defenders, which explicitly included my case and the targeting I faced in Beirut, Nairobi, Germany, and Geneva.

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The senders also managed, once again, to obtain my personal information and phone details.

These messages were later deleted, but I kept full copies and immediately handed them over to my legal teams in different countries.

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On 18 September 2025 at 17:00 Berlin time, I received threatening WhatsApp messages on my new German number.
The messages contained explicit sexual insults, direct threats of violence, and attempts to intimidate me by suggesting a wide network was protecting the senders.

Supreme State Security Prosecution summons Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah for investigation The Supreme State Prosecution summoned Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah on Saturday to appear for questioning next Monday in case 6182/2025.  Although the summons did not specify the reason for...

Behörden in #Ägypten haben heute die MadaMasr-Chefredakteurin Lina Attalah vorgeladen und gegen Kaution freigelassen. Anlass war offensichtlich ein Beitrag über Misshandlungen im Badr3-Gefängnis - ein Ort, an dem die Rechte von Häftlingen nicht viel zählen.
www.madamasr.com/en/2025/08/0...

Poetry in Chains: Writers Gather in Solidarity With Detained Poet Galal El-Behairy - PEN America If you have something different inside of you, don’t lose it, don’t suppress it. Feed it by reading poetry, by participating in such campaigns and solidarity.

Find a recording of the gathering and full conversation with El-Behairy’s father, novelist @ahmednaji.bsky.social, PEN International’s @minathabet.bsky.social, and journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social in our latest blog. Read and share with #FreeGalal

pen.org/poetry-in-ch...

New UN brief prompts growing global action against transnational repression On 30 June 2025, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched its first-ever brief on transnational repression (TNR) at a side event during the 59th session of the UN Human...

Honored to speak at the launch of the first-ever UN guidance on #TransnationalRepression — a crucial step to protect exiles & defenders.

📄 My statement: ishr.ch/wp-content/upl…

🔗 UN brief: ⬇️ishr.ch/latest-updat...n/

My recent interview with @ishr.ch about #TransnationalRepression and what should be done.
When safety becomes conditional, so does democracy.
We don’t need more praise — we need protection.
We don’t need to be admired for our resilience — we need systems that prevent violence in the first place.

Join us at DW Global Media Forum! @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de

Egypt must release poet Galal El-Behairy, unjustly jailed since he was 28 years old for his poetry and song lyrics. Today marks his 35th birthday—his 7th spent behind bars. How many more birthdays will Egypt rob from him? #FreeGalal #PoetryIsNotACrime

Joint Statement

We, the undersigned organizations, call on the Egyptian government to immediately end its campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists – specifically Egyptian journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social.

Read the full Statement: penberlin.de/basma-mostafa/

Poetry in Chains: A Conversation with Egyptian Poets and Writers In Honor of Galal El-Behairy’s 35th Birthday - PEN America Join us to mark the 35th birthday of PEN America’s 2025 Freedom to Write honoree Galal El-Behairy, currently detained in Egypt for his words.

To honor El-Behairy’s birthday, @ahmednaji.bsky.social ‬joins us with @minathabet.bsky.social & @basmamostafa.bsky.social to discuss creativity, dissent, and repression in Egypt. El-Behairy’s father will join us as a guest of honor.

RSVP for Friday 6/27 at 11 AM ET: pen.org/event/poetry...

CPJ, others call on Egypt to end transnational repression against exiled journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists In a joint statement, led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 25 press freedom and human rights organizations called on the Egyptian government to end its transnational repression campaign agains...

(1/2) RFKHR joins partner organizations in condemning #Egypt’s transnational repression against journalist
@basmamostafa.bsky.social, who has been targeted across 4 countries, in connection with her work.

cpj.org/2025/06/cpj-...

CPJ, others call on Egypt to end transnational repression against exiled journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists In a joint statement, led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, 25 press freedom and human rights organizations called on the Egyptian government to end its transnational repression campaign agains...

We join @pressfreedom.bsky.social and human rights groups to demand an end to Egypt’s transnational repression targeting exiled journalist @basmamostafa.bsky.social in Germany. German authorities must act urgently to ensure safety for Mostafa and all writers living in exile. cpj.org/2025/06/cpj-...

Transnational repression of human rights defenders: The impacts on civic space and the responsibility of host states | Think Tank | European Parliament Transnational repression of human rights defenders: The impacts on civic space and the responsibility of host states

Important work by @mmichae1sen.bsky.social on #TNR
This is not theory, my case is one of many and despite complaints, my case acknowledged by Germany&UN. Still unprotected.
This study shows why that must change!! what EU states must do to fix it!
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www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

Egypt: End transnational repression against exiled journalist Basma Mostafa - ARTICLE 19 Civil society calls on the Egyptian government to immediately end campaign of transnational repression targeting exiled Egyptian journalists.

End transnational repression against exiled journalist Basma Mostafa

www.article19.org/resources/eg...

Egypt: End transnational repression against exiled journalist Basma Mostafa The undersigned human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, urge the Egyptian authorities to stop targeting...

Egypt: End transnational repression against exiled journalist Basma Mostafa
->International Federation for Human Rights | More info from EcoSearch

Egypt | Rights organizations call on Egypt to end transnational repression against exiled journalist Basma Mostafa - HuMENA 26 rights organizations call on Egypt to end its cross-border campaign of harassment and surveillance targeting exiled journalist Basma Mostafa. The statement urges Egypt to respond to a UN report and...

🔵 26 organizations—including HuMENA, Human Rights Watch, and CPJ—call for:
▪️ An official response from Egypt to UN communication AL EGY 6/2024
▪️ Full protection & accountability from German authorities

📖 Full statement:
🔗 humena.org/statements/stop-egypt-transnational-repression-basma-mostafa

🇪🇬 | #Egypt #TransnationalRepression
🔵 Even in exile, journalist Basma Mostafa remains under threat.
UN experts documented surveillance, harassment & gender-based digital abuse targeting her across 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇰🇪 🇱🇧.

🔗 humena.org/statements/stop-egypt-transnational-repression-basma-mostafa

Egypt | Rights organizations call on Egypt to end transnational repression against exiled journalist Basma Mostafa - HuMENA 26 rights organizations call on Egypt to end its cross-border campaign of harassment and surveillance targeting exiled journalist Basma Mostafa. The statement urges Egypt to respond to a UN report and...

#BasmaMostafa #PressFreedom #Exile #HumanRights #HuMENA

Poetry in Chains: A Conversation with Egyptian Poets and Writers In Honor of Galal El-Behairy’s 35th Birthday - PEN America Join us to mark the 35th birthday of PEN America’s 2025 Freedom to Write honoree Galal El-Behairy, currently detained in Egypt for his words.

I’m joining Poetry in Chains, hosted by @penamerica.bsky.social on Friday, June 27, to mark poet #GalalElBehairy’s 7th birthday behind bars — jailed for his words, not crimes.
Writing is not a threat.
Join us & raise your voice to #FreeGalal.
➡️ To register: pen.org/event/poetry...

Catch MCJN member @basmamostafa.bsky.social speaking in this Global Media Forum breakout session, hosted by
@rsf.org.

📍July 7 | 2:15 PM | Global Media Forum | @news.dw.com

#TransnationalRepression #Journalists #Exile #MediaFreedom

Saudi HRD Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi has spent over 3 years in detention in #Bulgaria.
He’s at risk of deportation to 🇸🇦 where prison, torture, or execution await. Yesterday, Saudi Arabia executed journalist Turki Al-Jasser for tweeting. #FreeAlKhalidi
#NoDeportation #TransnationalRepression

Basma Mostafa's schedule for NR25 Check out what Basma Mostafa will be attending at NR25

Glad to join #NetzwerkRecherche2025. I’ll speak about #TransnationalRepression alongside Vietnamese journalist Trung Khoa Lê and Chinese journalist Yutong Su. Hosted by @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de moderated by Anne Renzenbrink. More Details: nr25.sched.com/speaker/basm...
#ExiledVoices #PressFreedom

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