Nazra for Feminist Studies, along with its founder and executive director Mozn Hassan, received the 2016 Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” on Thursday. “Hassan and Nazra received the award for asserting the equality and rights of women in circumstances where they are subject to ongoing violence, abuse and discrimination,” the Right Livelihood Award Foundation said in a statement. In June, Hassan joined a list of Egyptian human rights defenders banned from travel in relation to a 2011 case, recently reopened against local NGOs for receiving foreign funding. An Egypt court this week ordered the freezing of the assets of a number of human rights defenders and organizations that, however, do not include Hassan or Nazra. Hassan was officially summoned in the reopened case in March, following the interrogation of three other members of Nazra in the same case. “Hassan’s work has placed her in the crosshairs of various groups during an incredibly turbulent period in Egypt, culminating in the present crackdown on civil society and NGOs,” Ole van Uexkull, executive director of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation said. “Her work in, amongst many other things, successfully…
