Human rights activists in Egypt mourned Friday a former foreign minister who protected their oft-persecuted movement during its early days, AFP said.
Sources at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry were quoted by ArabicNews.com as saying that Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel had died following “a long struggle with disease.”
Hisham Kassem, the Egyptian Organization for Human Right's current president, was quoted by the agency as saying that “Kamel was the initial chairman of Egypt's first rights organization, the EOHR, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and his stature lent the movement a protective umbrella.”
In 1978, Kamel expressed his opposition to the Camp David agreement by submitting his resignation, the reports said.
Kamel was a 1947 law graduate from Cairo University. He began his diplomatic career in the mid-1950s – Albawaba.com
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