CBC Ottawa featured a lecture on journalism and its role in human rights by Mohamed Fahmy, a journalism professor at UBC.
He discussed the role of his cell phone in keeping him alive.
“It was very important because I was able to start a crowd-funding campaign from prison. I was checking on what the media was saying. I was communicating with very trusted journalists that I knew would not reveal the fact that I had a phone,” he said. “I basically was managing my campaign from prison.”
