On 27 November 2024 ISHR shared this profile:
‘The Egyptian authorities must open the civic space for civil society to play its role. They must stop persecuting human rights defenders, political opponents, and journalists simply for doing their jobs. The UN and the international community must maintain pressure on them to comply with human rights standards.’
Basma Mostafa is an Egyptian investigative journalist and co-founder of the Law and Democracy Support Foundation. She began her journalism career amid the Egyptian revolution, focusing on sensitive issues such as torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings.
Basma’s commitment to exposing human rights violations in Egypt came at a high personal cost. Over the years, she faced numerous threats and severe reprisals for her work, including being detained three times, forcibly disappeared, and accused of ‘affiliation with a terrorist organisation’ and of ‘spreading false information’. Following a sustained campaign of intimidation, Basma was forced to leave Egypt in 2020.
What happened during the Egyptian revolution strengthened my commitment to the principles of human rights and to defending them.
https://ishr.ch/defender-stories/human-rights-defenders-story-basma-mostafa-from-egypt
Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards 
June 27, 2025 at 17:57
[…] Mostafa is a prominent investigative journalist known for reporting on human rights abuses in Egypt, including tortureand extrajudicial killings. She was arrested in 2016 while covering protests, and again twice in 2020 while reporting on a police raid in southern Egypt. After facing charges of spreading false news and joining a terrorist organization, she was released on bail and forced into exile. [https://humanrightsdefenders.blog/2024/11/30/human-rights-defenders-story-basma-mostafa-from-egypt/] […]
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