The #EFF Awards are often a bittersweet occasion, but it started more somberly this year -- memorials to Peter Eckersley and Elliot Harmon, who both passed away from cancer this year, and then an award to Alaa abd el-Fattah, the FLOSS advocate who became a pivotal protestor against Egypt's authoritatian regimes. Alaa is on water-strike right now, after 220 days of hunger strike. Please join the campaign to #freealaa , and with him, the thousands of political prisoners in Egypt.
