Egypt

Revolution A Distant Memory As Egypt Escalates Repression

December 15, 2014 Orla Guerin, www.bbc.com Resist! Egypt, police brutality, Revolution, Wars and Militarism

If you want to know what became of the revolution of 2011, which electrified Egypt and swept then-President Hosni Mubarak from power, you could talk to its leaders. Or try to. Some are in exile, and others in jail. The award-winning liberal activist Asmaa Mahfouz is still at large, but far from free. She was recently banned from leaving the country. "The regime is hostile towards the revolution," she says, "and is trying to erase it from history." Many here share that view. Almost four years on, she says the situation is far worse than during the three decades of his rule. "When we protested under Mubarak we were beaten in the streets," Ms Mahfouz says. "Sometimes we were tortured. But now people are being killed, in the most brutal way."

Mubarak Verdict Fuels Protests, Mockery In Egypt

December 1, 2014 Amr Dalsh, www.reuters.com Resist! Egypt, Law, Protests

Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on Sunday, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak, the president whose ouster in the 2011 uprising raised hopes of a new era of political openness. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Cairo University, waving pictures of Mubarak behind bars and demanding the "fall of the regime", the rallying cry of the Arab Spring uprisings that shook governments from Tunisia to the Gulf in 2011. Police stood ready at the gates to bar students that sought to take their demonstration into the streets. An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped its case against Mubarak over the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule.

Egypt Court Sentences 23 Protesters To Prison

October 30, 2014 Dominic Yobbi, www.jurist.org Resist! Egypt, Human Rights, political prisoners

An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 23 activists to three years in prison for protesting without a permit, an act that violates a law enacted in November 2013. The men were arrested in June while protesting the restrictive protest law that requires demonstrators to obtain permission from authorities one week in advance of gathering in public, grants the interior ministry the right to reject requests and imposes severe fines for violations. In addition to violating the protest law, the men were also convicted of blocking off a road during the demonstration, damaging public property and using violence "with the aim of terrorizing citizens."

Egypt Risks ‘Student Intifada’ Amid Campus Crackdown

October 16, 2014 Mamoon Alabbasi, www.middleeasteye.net Resist! Egypt, police brutality, Repression, Student Activism

The Egyptian government risks causing a major student uprising against the state if the authorities continue their current policy of cracking down on dissent in university campuses, warned a new report by a Cairo-based NGO. The warning came as the start of the new academic year in Egypt witnessed the arrests of more than 100 university students, amid widespread anti-government protests, and where a private security company using metal detectors has left bottlenecked queues outside universities. The report, released Tuesday by Egypt's Democracy Index of the International Development Centre (IDC), also called on the authorities to release students arrested during protests in the first days of the academic year which began on 11 October.

Trials Of Egyptian Activists, Many On Hunger Strike, Begin

October 11, 2014 Dahlia Kholaif, www.aljazeera.com Resist! Egypt, Law, militarism, political prisoners

Twenty-three Egyptian activists are due to stand trial for breaching a widely criticised law that bars protests unauthorised by the government. Among those to appear before the court in Cairo on Saturday is 20-year-old Sana Seif, who was arrested on July 21 while peacefully demonstrating against the arrest of her brother, renowned blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. Abdel Fattah has since been released, while Seif's trial has faced repeated postponements. "We don't know what to expect anymore," Laila Soueif, Seif's mother and an assistant professor of mathematics at Cairo University, told Al Jazeera. "We've given up on understanding. If things proceed according to logic, it should be postponed, since the case was referred to a new judicial circuit and a new judge. But our lawyers are braced for all scenarios."

150 Hunger Striking Students Tortured In Egypt

September 28, 2014 Staff, www.middleeastmonitor.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt, Hunger Strike, Students

Al-Azhar Students' Union has said that there are over 150 students on hunger strike and they are subjected to severe torture, including verbal and physical abuse inside prisons. In a statement the union said that prisons' administrations threaten the hunger strikers with burning, killing them or moving them to be with criminal detainees. The prisoners, the statement said, are banned from getting water for long periods of time. One hunger striker is the head of the Faculty of Commerce in Al-Azhar University, Usama Zaid, who is in Abu-Za'bal Prison. According to the statement the prisoners receive bad medical treatment and are even subjected to torture inside the prisons' clinics. Hunger strikers are put in solitary confinement for long periods or put with criminal prisoners, who are encouraged to beat and kill them without being liable to judicial trials.

US Citizen Held In Egypt Near Death After 230-Day Hunger Strike

September 24, 2014 Cristina Corbin, www.foxnews.com Organize! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt, Political Prisoner

A U.S. citizen imprisoned in Egypt following the overthrow of Muslim Brotherhood-backed Mohamed Morsi is near death after refusing to eat for 230 days, say human rights activists and his family, who are pleading for his immediate release. Mohamed Soltan, 26, who holds dual citizenship and graduated from The Ohio State University, was arrested in August 2013 during a crackdown against pro-Morsi supporters in Egypt's Rabaa Al Adeweya Square. Soltan was working at the time with a media committee that was reporting violations by security forces against against pro-Morsi supporters since the former Egyptian president's ousting, according to Amnesty International. Soltan was initially moved from prison to prison to conceal his whereabouts. He was later placed in solitary confinement and imprisoned at al-Aqrab maximum security prison as punishment for going on a hunger strike, the human rights group said.

Egyptian Youth Escalate Hunger Strike Against Protest Law

September 22, 2014 Ahram Online, www.ahram.org.eg Resist! April 6, Egypt

The April 6 Youth movement announced on Wednesday that it would escalate its members' hunger strike in the upcoming days until the protest law is cancelled. In a press conference held Wednesday afternoon, Amr Ali, the movement's coordinator announced that it supported the hunger strike movement. Ali spoke of ‘the empty stomach" against the protest law which he described as "unconstitutional," demanding the release of the detainees imprisoned because of the law.

Egyptian Students Get 4 Years In Jail For Protests

September 18, 2014 Ahram Online, english.ahram.org.eg Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt, Protest, Students

Cairo's misdemeanor court has sentenced 17 Al-Azhar students to four years in jail on charges of organising an illegal protest. The defendants were accused of illegally protesting and inciting violence at Al-Azhar University on 12 January of this year. Among the 17 students sentenced, five are females. The defence team plans to appeal the verdict. Meanwhile, Egypt's prosecutor-general on Wednesday ordered the release of 116 students from different universities ahead of the start of the new academic year on 11 October. Hundreds of students were arrested during the last academic year over protests against the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi and also over the detention of their colleagues by security forces. Al-Azhar University – the oldest Islamic university in the world – saw some of the worst unrest among universities, with near daily protests often spiralling into violent confrontations with police.

Al-Azhar Students Sentenced To 5 Years

September 16, 2014 Jihad Abaza, www.dailynewsegypt.com Resist! Education, Egypt, Human Rights

The Nasr City Misdemeanor Court sentenced nine Azhar University students to five years in prison and a fine of EGP 50,000 on Sunday, state-owned Al-Ahram reported. The students were arrested in May during clashes with security forces in the Al-Azhar University dormitories. The defendants are charged with “inciting riots, crowding, resisting authorities, damaging public properties, and joining an armed group that aims to disrupt public peace and order”. The detainment of 49 Al-Azhar students in Abu Zaabal Prison began an open-ended hunger strike on 5 September to demand their freedom, according to the Al-Azhar Students Against the Coup (SAC) group. “More than a year has passed and we have been moving along the corridors of prisons, torturous police stations, and in the cells of prison,” the hunger-striking students said in a statement they released from the Abu Zaabal detentions.

Egypt: Hunger Strikes Against Mass Arbitrary Arrests

September 16, 2014 Revolution-News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Egypt, Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Mass Incarceration

156 people are now on hunger strike in Egypt, 82 inside Egyptian prisons and 74 outside, in solidarity with all those who have been arrested by the Egyptian military and police forces. Estimates say around 41,000 people have been arrested in Egypt since the ousting of Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. Human rights groups report at least 25,000 people have been arrested this year and many have died while in custody. Reports indicate that torture is still widely used on prisoners. While many in Egypt and abroad are elated with today’s news of the Shura Council detainees being released on bail, there are still way too many people locked up in deplorable conditions for ridiculous reasons in Egypt. It is difficult to keep track of who exactly is in Egyptian jail but here’s a list of some recent arrests.

Egyptian Protests Continue

September 15, 2014 CM, www.blog2.coupmonitor.com Resist! coup, Egypt, Protest

Like every Friday for the past 63 weeks, Anti-coup alliance (ACA) has called for nation-wide protests in Egypt on Friday. In this post we present a digest of the anticoup events that happened during the day. You can view and download the raw data of our monitoring in Arabic and English. We monitored 89 anticoup events in 21 governates. The top three governates were Cairo, Beni Suef and Dakahlia. Rallies were the most common type of events, followed by stands and human chains.Other protest forms, namely vehicle rallies also happened. There was a diverse range of organizers of protests, including youth, students and women. Dank Movement, that organized another wave of protests earlier this week was also present as an organizer of some events.

18-year-old Abused At Trial In Egypt

September 10, 2014 Joanna Kiernan, www.independent.ie Resist! Egypt, Human Rights, Law, militarism

An Irish student locked up in Egypt for more than a year has told how he was beaten up, spat on and dragged down the stairs of a courthouse by his jailers after his latest trial appearance ended in farce. Ibrahim Halawa (18) detailed the shocking abuse in handwritten letters he penned from his Cairo cell to well-wishers who have supported him since he was detained in August last year. Referring to his trial on August 12 last, which was dramatically abandoned mid-hearing, Ibrahim writes: "I didn't get to talk to my lawyer and the court cage was sound-proof (the one I didn't even enter) which is also illegal. We refused to leave until we get to see a judge as a result we were beaten up, dragged down the stairs, handcuffed in threes, we were spat on and all this just because we refused to leave until we were to see a judge." However, Ibrahim assured his supporters he is remaining positive in spite of his ordeal. "After what I went through I returned to the cell joking trying to lighten up the mood because of what I learned I cannot show my enemy I am weak, as they say, 'build a brick wall from the bricks thrown at you by your enemy'. This does not mean that I did not return feeling down and very depressed," he wrote.

Urgent Action: Egypt End The Siege Of Gaza

August 12, 2014 Ali Abunimah, www.electronicintifada.net Resist! Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Wars and Militarism

In response to calls from our fellow human beings and comrades in Gaza who ask that we bring an end to the Egyptian government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza: To all of you who understand the interconnectedness of our many human struggles for justice and dignity, we implore you to act in solidarity with Palestine as Gaza burns and bleeds, gathers and buries the lifeless bodies of her children, and contends with carnage, despair, and loss for which there is no language. More than 1.8 million human beings have been under a suffocating, deadly siege imposed by Israel and accommodated by the Egyptian government, that severely restricts all movement of people and products. It is creating in Gaza what has been described as the biggest open air prison in the world, subject to frequent Israeli attacks and used as a laboratory to test and market new Israeli weapons. The average age in Gaza is 17 years, with half the people under the age of 16. This is a defenseless civilian population, densely packed into this besieged enclave with no place to run or take refuge from Israel’s full-on military onslaught.

Report: Women Sexually Abused In Prisons

July 2, 2014 Middle East Monitor, www.middleeastmonitor.com Educate! Egypt, Prison, Rape, Women's Rights

YouTube clip from Al-Jazeera entitled: A catastrophic report exposes cases of rape inside military prisons. One girl was raped 14 times. Presenter: The delegation submitted a general report about the violations that took place against Egyptian women since the military coup and until the first of June. The delegation also submitted another detailed report about cases of rape and sexual assault taking place against female detainees inside Egyptian prisons and police stations. The delegation submitted an authenticated report of seven cases of rape of female detainees. The report included a list of the names of detention centres and the names of police officers and individuals accused of raping the women including the cases of two women who were raped 14 times in one day in one of the detention centres belonging to Central Security Forces. One of the female detainees was suspended naked and sexually assaulted and was forced to watch obscene scenes. The delegation, which is composed of the European Coalition for Democracy and Human Rights, called for placing Egyptian women under a special category by the Committee for Women and Children and called for opening an investigation, by a neutral committee, into the violations and for opening the prisons and police station for inspection as well as for making police officers and cadets accountable for their actions.

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