Today, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist, Tawakkol Karman, joined an online panel entitled "Ten years of the Arab Spring: where are we now?" held today (Wednesday) by the SETA foundation.

“The hopes and dreams of the Arab Spring revolutionaries will never fade away or be in vain, emphasizing that revolutionaries do not forget their revolution just like peoples never give up their dreams.”

“It is not fair to hold the revolutionaries and the Arab Spring accountable for what is happening in the Arab region,” Karman said, adding that she is confident that the struggle will continue and will not stop as long as a single regime of nepotism, corruption and failure continues to exist.

She indicated that the Arab Spring revolutions were a necessity imposed by a set of circumstances and factors, pointing out that the Arab world was not living in democracy and prosperity and its countries were suffering from widespread corruption, absence of freedoms, human rights violations and indignities.

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To listen and watch the full speech, click (here)