Co-founder of Quilliam, was in Egyptian prison

Maajid Nawaz

Co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation, and former prisoner in Egypt

Maajid Nawaz is director of the Quilliam Foundation. Formerly, he served on the UK national leadership for the Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), and was involved in HT for almost 14 years. He was a founding member of HT in Denmark and Pakistan and eventually served four years in an Egyptian prison as a “prisoner of conscience” adopted by Amnesty International. In prison, Nawaz gradually began changing his views until he finally renounced the Islamist Ideology for traditional Islam and inclusive politics.