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This week in the Egyptian coastal city of Sharm el-Sheikh, thousands of young people from all over the world gathered for the ‘World Youth Forum'. Many Egyptian human rights activists denounced the conference as a token and superficial public relations stunt by the Egyptian government, with a now notorious open letter being addressed to American actress Helen Hunt to criticize her involvement, touting it as a validation of human rights abuses. “They said, ‘You can’t kill an idea,’ but what use…