Our human rights record is front-and-center this morning in the international press. We start with the New York Times, which has a nice gallery of Mahmoud “Shawkan” Abu Zeid’s news photography to accompany a piece headlined “Jailed by Egypt, Honored for His Photojournalism.” The Times tells Shawkan’s story a day after he won an International Press Freedom Award. Since we covered the story yesterday, CPJ has released its backgrounder on why it chose to honor Shawkan and threw in a moving micro-documentary on the talented young photographer’s case (watch, run time: 3:27).

Meanwhile, human rights activist Aida Seif Al Dawla was banned from travel yesterday, and the story is making the news everywhere from Financial Times and Italy’s ANSAmed. Seif Al Dawla was barred from boarding a flight to Tunisia from Cairo Airport. “The travel ban on Ms Seif-al Dawla came days after Azza Soliman, a lawyer who heads a legal aid charity for women, was stopped from leaving at the airport. Two human rights lawyers were also prevented from travel this month,” the salmon-coloured paper notes.