Maajid Nawaz – 2018 Morris B. Abram Human Rights Award

Maajid Nawaz Accepts Morris B. Abram Human Rights Award 2018 Gala Dinner in Geneva, Switzerland, May 7, 2018 Thank you very much; I just wanted to thank UN watch and Hillel in particular. And also Ambassador Alfred Moses for the lovely lunch he bought me this afternoon. It was a pleasure to lunch with you and to meet you and to get to know you as well. I don’t have much time to thank you all, but it’s an absolute honor to be here. I will very briefly summarize how somebody caught up in the war on terror, imprisoned in Egypt under Hostly Mubarak, and sentenced to five years in jail ends up…

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