Human rights defenders in the Arab Spring countries are often classified as conspirators or terrorists, said the Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman. 

This came in a speech entitled “Challenges Faced by Human Rights Activists around the World” Mrs. Karman has delivered in the National Geographic Festival of Sciences in Rome. 

She noted that human rights defenders the authoritarian regimes in the Arab Spring countries often deal with human rights defenders and activists as conspirators and terrorists. 

 

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