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  • NameHoda Abdelwahab
  • RoleLawyer and Executive Director of the Arab Centre for Independence of Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP), working to promote judicial independence and the rule of law across Egypt and the Arab region
  • CountryEgypt
  • StatusAt liberty
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Hoda Abdelwahab, a lawyer leading an organisation that defends judicial independence across the Arab world, was barred from leaving Egypt from 2016 under a travel ban imposed without formal notice. In April 2026 her organisation reported that the authorities had decided to lift it.