Islam Gawish
Islam Gawish is a blogger and popular young cartoonist. He works for Egypt News Network (ENN), a news website managed by the Social Media Marketing Company, and publishes his comics on the Al-Waraqa ('The Paper') Facebook page, which is followed by more than 1.6 million users. He uses his cartoons to highlight human rights abuses committed by the police, as well as issues of corruption and repressive governmental policies.
A significant crackdown on civil society in Egypt has been taking place since 2014. HRDs face an extremely challenging situation due to restrictions imposed on civil society and peaceful public gatherings and protests, travel bans, the arrest and sentencing of HRDs, bloggers, journalists and protesters, as well as an ongoing smear campaign against human rights groups.
