The Egyptian photojournalist, who became an international symbol of the government’s clampdown on press freedom, was released and reunited with his family after being imprisoned for photographing the security forces’ violent dispersal of a protest camp.
Speaking to reporters outside his home, Abou Zeid said he felt “as if I was flying” in the first moments after his release, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported. He tried to put a positive spin on his imprisonment. “It’s bitter, but it lets one look at life from a different perspective, a new perspective that one can’t see except from this place,” he said.
The freelance journalist’s ordeal had made him one of Egypt’s most high-profile prisoners and drew international protest against President Abdel Fattah Sisi, whose government has sharply reined in the Egyptian press. Only two countries, Turkey and China, imprison more journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists , and Egypt has imprisoned the most for spreading “false news.”
Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, widely known as Shawkan, carries a camera outside his home in Cairo on March 4. , the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, after he was toppled by the military. More than 800 people were killed in one of the bloodiest moments in the country’s modern history.
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