Account of blogger and campaigner who has won awards for documenting human rights abuses shut downTwitter has faced criticism after the account of a prominent Egyptian journalist and campaigner was suspended. At the time of the suspension last week, Abbas had 350,000 followers on Twitter. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wael Abbas’s Twitter account as it now appears. He went on to win several honours, including the Knight international journalism award, for his documenting of human rights abuses. In 2016, Abbas was arrested when returning to Egypt from South Korea, and in 2011 he used his Twitter account to document being arrested by the army.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2017 12:43 UTC