#open letter
Egyptian human rights activists condemned on Tuesday American award-winning actress Helen Hunt for her participation in the state-sponsored World Youth Conference they claim glosses over authorities’ rights violations. In an open letter, Mona Seif and a host of other prominent activists slammed Hunt for “support a dictator responsible for thousands of deaths, arbitrary detentions and disappearances.” On Wednesday morning, the letter had garnered nearly 500 signatures. The letter went on to say that Hunt’s visiting Sharm al-Shaikh, the Red Sea resort where…