Revolutionaries: Egypt's Transformers

In April 2011, Human Rights Watch commissioned portrait photographer Platon to create a portfolio from Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Platon photographed human rights campaigners, social media activists, union organizers, writers, musicians, victims and heroes of the movement that brought an end to Hosni Mubarak’s 30-years of repressive rule – and helped inspire similar movements for human rights across the Middle East, and beyond.