Mostafa Shaat is a legal researcher based in Cairo who holds an LL.M. degree in “International Law of Human Rights” from the Law School of Notre Dame University, Indiana. Since 2011, he joined a number of local NGOs, such as the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression as a junior researcher focusing on issues of transitional justice, freedom of speech and expression, and also on criminal justice. He currently works as a researcher in the Law and Society Research Unit (LSRU) in the “law and security” team at the American University in Cairo.