The executive director of Human Rights Watch has been denied entry to Egypt. Kenneth Roth was held for 12 hours at Cairo’s international airport along with HRW Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson before being turned away. Roth and Whitson had flown to Egypt to mark the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting by state forces that killed hundreds of unarmed protesters opposing the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi. In a post on Twitter, Roth said: “[The] massacre numbers rank with Tiananmen and Andijan but Egypt gov’t wouldn’t let me in to present [a] report on it.”