Mostafa Al-A’sar

Mostafa Al-A’sar is an award-winning Egyptian journalist, researcher and human rights defender. Al-A’sar endured four years in detention in Egypt as a prisoner of conscience for his journalism before fleeing to Lebanon and later relocating to Toronto, Canada. He is a 2025 Journalists for Human Rights contributing writer for The Walrus and was a 2024/2025 Canadian Journalists for Free Expression/Massey College journalism fellow at the University of Toronto. He founded REDWORD for Human Right and Freedom of Expression, a Canadian nonprofit dedicated to defending free expression and countering misinformation, fake news and hate speech.