Martin Ennals Award Archives - UN Watch https://unwatch.org/tag/martin-ennals-award/ Monitoring the UN Promoting Human Rights Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:29:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Mona Seif and Blowing Up Pipelines https://unwatch.org/mona-seif-and-blowing-up-pipelines/ Thu, 02 May 2013 20:58:42 +0000 https://blog.unwatch.org/?p=3746 The story of Mona Seif and blowing up pipelines can be seen on Storify by clicking here. A longer list of her anti-peace and pro-terror tweets are on Storify here.

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]]> The story of Mona Seif and blowing up pipelines can be seen on Storify by clicking here. A longer list of her anti-peace and pro-terror tweets are on Storify here.

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]]> Mona Seif Acknowledges Writing "Anti-Israel Tweets" https://unwatch.org/mona-seif-acknowledges-writing-anti-israel-tweets-2/ Wed, 01 May 2013 19:11:23 +0000 https://blog.unwatch.org/?p=3744 After UN Watch revealed her support for terrorism, Mona Seif, nominee for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, today acknowledged writing “anti-Israel Tweets”: Just a note: all my anti israel tweets were written in English precisely so that the international community celebrating our 1/2 — Mona Seif (@Monasosh) April 30, 2013 revolution understands […]

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]]> After UN Watch revealed her support for terrorism, Mona Seif, nominee for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, today acknowledged writing “anti-Israel Tweets”:

A longer list of her anti-peace and pro-terror tweets are on Storify here.

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]]> Mona Seif Acknowledges Writing "Anti-Israel Tweets" https://unwatch.org/mona-seif-acknowledges-writing-anti-israel-tweets/ Wed, 01 May 2013 19:11:23 +0000 https://blog.unwatch.org/?p=3744 After UN Watch revealed her support for terrorism, Mona Seif, nominee for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, today acknowledged writing “anti-Israel Tweets”: Just a note: all my anti israel tweets were written in English precisely so that the international community celebrating our 1/2 — Mona Seif (@Monasosh) April 30, 2013 revolution understands […]

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]]> After UN Watch revealed her support for terrorism, Mona Seif, nominee for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, today acknowledged writing “anti-Israel Tweets”:

A longer list of her anti-peace and pro-terror tweets are on Storify here.

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]]> Update: Nominee for World's Top Human Rights Prize Acknowledges "My Anti-Israel Tweets" https://unwatch.org/update-nominee-worlds-top-human-rights-prize-acknowledges-anti-israel-tweets/ Wed, 01 May 2013 15:12:47 +0000 https://unwatch.jaredco.com/?p=15381 PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, May 1, 2013 – In response to new revelations, a top contender for the world’s premier human rights prize — one of three Final Nominees selected by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and eight other NGOs — today acknowledged having posted “anti-Israel tweets.” See UN Watch’s original release here. Controversy erupted after Mona Seif was […]

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GENEVA, May 1, 2013 – In response to new revelations, a top contender for the world’s premier human rights prize — one of three Final Nominees selected by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and eight other NGOs — today acknowledged having posted “anti-Israel tweets.” See UN Watch’s original release here.

Controversy erupted after Mona Seif was named last week a Final Nominee for the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, considered “the Nobel for human rights.” Egyptian human rights activists criticized Seif’s tweets supporting the targeting of civilians in Israel. Click here to see Seif’s tweets advocating terrorism; other hateful tweets here.

UN Watch yesterday sent a letter to prize chair Hans Thoolen asking him to drop Seif on acount of her support for terrorism, and appealed to former Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey, the foundation chair; Human Rights Watch and the other jury members; and prize patron Theo Van Boven, a Dutch law professor and former UN expert. None has yet responded.

Earlier today, Seif responded on Twitter: “Just a note: all my anti-Israel tweets were written in English precisely so that the international community celebrating our revolution understands that we support the resistance of the palestinian nation against israel. I didn’t fool anyone or hide my thoughts… I support a nation’s right to resist occupation! Sending me tweets calling me a terrorist won’t change the fact that [the] real terrorist is Israel.”

In a similar incident in March, Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim went to Washington to receive a State Department award when suddenly it was revealed that she had cheered a terrorist attack against Israelis and made other antisemitic comments. Though initially she claimed her Twitter account had been hacked, she eventually acknowledged having made “statements hostile to Zionism,” for which she refused to apologize. Her award was canceled.

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]]> Tweets for Hatred: Mona Seif, Nominee for 2013 Martin Ennals Human Rights Award https://unwatch.org/tweets-for-hatred-mona-seif-nominee-for-2013-martin-ennals-human-rights-award/ Wed, 01 May 2013 12:35:45 +0000 https://blog.unwatch.org/?p=3727 UN Watch today called on the jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, comprised of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and eight other NGOs, and chaired by Hans Thoolen, to cancel its nomination of Mona Seif, an Egyptian activist who openly advocates terrorism and war crimes, as a top contender for the 2013 prize. Below are […]

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]]> UN Watch today called on the jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, comprised of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and eight other NGOs, and chaired by Hans Thoolen, to cancel its nomination of Mona Seif, an Egyptian activist who openly advocates terrorism and war crimes, as a top contender for the 2013 prize. Below are her tweets for hatred. (A longer list of her tweets advocating violence against civilians, terrorism and war crimes are on Storify here.).
Mona Seif cheered the violent mob that sacked the Israeli Embassy:



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]]> Tweets for Terror: Mona Seif, Nominee for 2013 Martin Ennals Human Rights Award https://unwatch.org/tweets-for-terror-mona-seif-nominee-for-2013-martin-ennals-human-rights-award/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:52:28 +0000 https://blog.unwatch.org/?p=3703 UN Watch today called on the jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, comprised of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and eight other NGOs, and chaired by Hans Thoolen, to cancel its nomination of Mona Seif, an Egyptian activist who openly advocates terrorism and war crimes, as a top contender for the 2013 […]

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]]> UN Watch today called on the jury of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, comprised of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and eight other NGOs, and chaired by Hans Thoolen, to cancel its nomination of Mona Seif, an Egyptian activist who openly advocates terrorism and war crimes, as a top contender for the 2013 prize.
She openly incites to violence against civilians, terrorism and war crimes:
– On July 6, 2011 — among several times — Mona Seif advocated the blowing up of pipelines exporting gas to Israel.
– On November 6, 2012, when Amnesty International tweeted a “Demand that @netanyahu & @AlqassamBrigade stop attacks on civilians,” Mona Seif rejected the call, saying “you don’t ask an occupied nation to stop their “Resistance” to end violence!!! SHAME ON YOU!”
– On November 20, 2012, Amnesty International tweeted: “Stop the madness! Share this image if you want an arms embargo on all sides #Israel #Hamas #Gaza” The image shows innocent civilians in Israel and Gaza. Seif responded: “@amnesty & @hrw r leading a shameful campaign asking Palestinians under occupation & non stop air strikes 2 stop their resistance!”


Advocating Hamas terrorism:


She is unrepentant for these tweets for terror, and is now doubling down:

** A longer list of Mona Seif’s  anti-peace and pro-terror tweets are on Storify here.


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]]> Roth comment and Mona reply to Amnesty Top Rights Prize Nominee Tweets for Terror https://unwatch.org/top-rights-prize-nominee-tweets-terror/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:40:58 +0000 https://unwatch.jaredco.com/?p=21725 UN Watch & Egyptian rights activists urge global human rights prize to cancel nomination of Mona Seif for advocating violence against civilians Amr Bakly: “The Martin Ennals Award is not for terrorist supporters. . . Mona Saif is a terrorist supporter!” GENEVA, April 30, 2013 – A jury comprised of 10 of the world’s leading human rights organizations, […]

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to cancel nomination of Mona Seif for advocating violence against civilians

Amr Bakly: “The Martin Ennals Award is not for terrorist
supporters. . . Mona Saif is a terrorist supporter!”
GENEVA, April 30, 2013 – A jury comprised of 10 of the world’s leading human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, has nominated an Egyptian activist for a premier human rights prize, even though she “Tweets for terror,” said the Geneva-based UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights monitoring organization, which sent a letter today urging the cancelation of Mona Seif’s nomination. (See below UN Watch letter to Hans Thoolen, Chair of the Martin Ennals Award jury.)
Several Egyptian human rights activists familiar with Seif’s statements, including tweets in English and Arabic, expressed shock at the nomination.
Amr Bakly, an Egyptian human rights activist who heads the Cairo Liberal Forum tweeted:  “The Martin Ennals Award is not for terrorist supporters.., Mona Saif is a terrorist supporter!”
Maikel Nabil, a former Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who was jailed by Egypt in 2011 for his human rights activism, also expressed alarm: “The Martin Ennals Award can be awarded to Mona Seif if its committee is able to explain to the victims of terrorism why they deserve to be killed by those who Mona supports.”
A copy of the letter was sent to former Swiss president Micheline Calmy-Rey, who chairs the prize foundation’s board.
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Following is the UN Watch letter sent today.
Mr. Hans Thoolen
Martin Ennals Foundation
c/o OMCT
Rue du Vieux-Billard 8
Geneva 1211
Switzerland
30 April 2013
Dear Mr. Thoolen,
We are shocked to see that your organization, the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, has nominated Ms. Mona Seif of Egypt as one of three Final Nominees for your 2013 prize.
By rewarding a person who has a pattern and practice of publicly inciting to violence against civilians, terrorism, and war crimes, you are dishonoring and indeed desecrating the memory and legacy of legendary human rights activist Martin Ennals.
We urge you, as Chair of the Jury and Secretary of the Board, to immediately cancel Ms. Seif’s nomination on grounds of her public advocacy of violence against civilians, terrorism and war crimes, which is in gross breach of the Award criteria of “promotion and protection of human rights.”
Compelling evidence includes the following messages published on the Internet by Ms. Seif to her 180,000 Twitter followers:

  • On July 6, 2011, Ms. Seif advocated the blowing up of pipelines exporting Egyptian gas to Israel. She praised those who commit such crimes as“heroes”and wrote“Fuck Israel”. Many have been killed and injured in violence connected to these attacks.
  • On November 6, 2012, Ms. Seif endorsed Al Qassam Brigades attacks on civilians. On that day, Amnesty International—a jury member of your award—tweeted a“Demand that @netanyahu & @AlqassamBrigade stop attacks on civilians.”Ms. Seif rejected the call, writing:“you don’t ask an occupied nation to stop their “Resistance” to end violence!!! SHAME ON YOU!”
  • On November 20, 2012, Ms. Seif endorsed the arming of Gaza terrorist groups. On that day, Amnesty International tweeted:“Stop the madness! Share this image if you want an arms embargo on all sides #Israel#Hamas #Gaza.”The image showed innocent civilians inIsraelandGaza. Seif responded:“@amnesty & @hrw r leading a shameful campaign asking Palestinians under occupation & non stop air strikes 2 stop their resistance!”

In other words, Ms. Seif not only publicly advocated the blowing up of pipelines, but when two of your jury members—Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch— called for an end to violence against civilians, Ms. Seif attacked such calls as “shameful.” In endorsing the actions of the Al Qassam Brigades, she was advocating, supporting and legitimizing such attacks as their launch of Fajr 5 missiles at Tel Aviv.
Indeed, the terrorism endorsed by Ms. Seif during this period included 1500 rockets attacks targeting civilian areas in Israel, killing and wounding civilians, destroying civilian property, and traumatizing millions of men, women and children.
We remind you that under international humanitarian law, the policy and practice of targeting civilians that was publicly endorsed by Ms. Seif on numerous occasions amounts to an endorsement of war crimes.
Martin Ennals was a great human rights activist whose work continues to inspire so many of us. He was a model of peace and non-violence. We strongly urge you not to associate his memory and legacy with an advocate of war crimes.
Sincerely,
Hillel C. Neuer
Executive Director
UN Watch
cc:  Micheline Calmy-Rey, President of the Martin Ennals Foundation and former President of Switzerland 

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