Egypt

Protests Against Mass Death Sentences At Egyptian Embassy In DC

March 28, 2014 DC Media Group, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Egypt, Human Rights, Protest

An Egyptian court sentenced 529 supporters of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to death on March 24 for killing a police officer. Today protestors from CODEPINK took their objections to the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, DC: “The trial was clearly a sham and your government, which has jailed over 16,000 people since coming to power, is clearly targeting people based on political affiliation.” The alleged supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi were convicted on charges of killing a single police officer, the attempted murder of two other officers, and attacking a police station in the Nile Valley city of Minya in August. Sixteen people were acquitted. The mass sentencing underscored the severity of an ongoing campaign by Egypt’s military-backed leaders to silence opposition, eight months after a military coup ousted Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected leader.

Egypt Kangaroo Court Sentences 529 Morsi Supporters To Death

March 25, 2014 Medea Benjamin, www.codepink.org Educate! CODE PINK, Egypt

The Egyptian court has just handed down one of the most grotesque sentences in Egyptian history, condemning 529 people to death in one fell swoop. The US State Department said it was “shocked” and that the verdict defies logic. “While appeals are possible, it simply does not seem possible that a fair review of evidence and testimony consistent with international standards could be accomplished with over 529 defendants after a two-day trial,” a State Department official said. Amnesty International issued a condemnation, and CODEPINK has launched a campaign to pressure the Egyptian government to overturn the verdict and respect political dissent.

Did the State Department Fail Medea Benjamin?

March 11, 2014 Kevin Gosztola, www.firedoglake.com Educate! CODE PINK, Egypt, Palestine

An American peace activist and co-founder of the group CODEPINK was planning to go to Gaza as part of a delegation on women. However, she flew to Cairo. She was detained in the airport, held for hours and then, before Egyptian security officers tried to deport her, she was roughed up and had her arm broken. The United States State Department had a duty to this person, Medea Benjamin. Perhaps, their most important job is to protect the safety and security of American citizens in other countries. What did the State Department do for her and did they fail her?

Six Things Tahrir Protesters Taught About Starting a Movement

March 4, 2014 Samiezade’-Yazd, www.occupywallst.org Strategize! Egypt, Occupy, Revolution

The Square digs deeper, showing viewers the anatomy of mass movements and the DIY ethos that drives those within to action. It shows you first-hand that decentralized movements aren’t about the headlines and the talking heads that define them, or, for that matter, the establishments that oppose them. They’re about the people and objectives within that propel them. The Square is an important film-- not just about Egypt, but about freedom movements and social change for an entire generation. The Square is a snapshot of a greater uprising, a social shift that is interconnected with Occupy and others like it all over the world. And while some have turned their backs on protesters within both movements, The Square is a vital reminder of the lessons that Tahrir’s revolutionaries taught Occupy and the world, inspiring the disenfranchised to to turn to the streets to amplify their voices.

Medea Benjamin Detained, Brutally Attacked & Deported In Egypt

March 4, 2014 Staff, www.codepink.org Resist! CODE PINK, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Police abuse

On the night of March 3, 2014, co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK Medea Benjamin was on her way to Egypt to join an international delegation of women going to Gaza when she was detained by border police in the Cairo airport, held overnight in a cell, and then brutally tackled (her arm badly injured), handcuffed, and deported to Turkey. During her time in the detention cell she had access to a cell phone, from which she contacted colleagues at CODEPINK about the poor conditions of the cell and chronicled her ordeal via Twitter. When the Egyptian police removed her from the detention center, they used such excessive force she sustained a fracture and torn ligament in her shoulder.

Egyptian Cabinet Steps Down To Clear Way For Sisi Presidential Bid

February 24, 2014 Michael Georgy in.reuters.com Educate! Egypt

Egypt's government has resigned, the prime minister said on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife. "(The government) made every effort to get Egypt out of the narrow tunnel in terms of security, economic pressures and political confusion," Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said in a live nationwide speech. Beblawi, who was tasked by interim President Adly Mansour with running the government's affairs until the election, did not give a clear reason for the decision. For Sisi to run for president he would first need to leave his post as defence minister. "This (government resignation) was done as a step that was needed ahead of Sisi's announcement that he will run for president," an Egyptian official said.

Did Nonviolence Fail In Egypt?

February 23, 2014 Mark Engler and Paul Engler, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Egypt, Nonviolence, Revolution

Three years ago this month, the 82-year-old president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down amid historic protests against his dictatorial rule. News of his resignation on Feb. 11, 2011 marked the climax of an uprising that was quickly recognized as one of the most sudden and significant upheavals of the 21st century. As the New York Times reported, “The announcement, which comes after an 18-day revolt led by the young people of Egypt, shatters three decades of political stasis and overturns the established order of the Arab world.” Activists in Egypt, along with sympathizers throughout the world, rejoiced. “We had tried before. But nothing was like this,” said Ahmed Salah, a veteran youth organizer who had worked for years to drum up resistance to the regime. For months, he had been promoting the audacious and improbable idea of a revolution without arms. “I had hopes, but I never really thought that I’d see it,” he explained. “Tahrir brought tears to my eyes.”

The Zeitgeist Of Tahrir And Occupy

February 10, 2014 Ahmed R Teleb, www.truth-out.org Educate! Egypt, Occupy, Revolution

The 21st Century spirit that fueled Tahrir - that made these possibilities visible, palpable and global - appears not yet to have said all that it has to say. January 25th's and Occupy Wall Street's political failure may in fact be their triumph. In demonstrating the inability of representative governments to meet the ambitions and ideals of the 21st Century mind, protestors in Cairo and in New York achieved a cultural coup. They educated the broader public about what is not possible within current political-economic structures and what alternative structures could be. Moreover, their use of technology to democratize information and liberate ideas not only makes citizen outrage more recognized but also makes the alternatives generally available beyond geographical barriers. In effect, just as political innovation seems more urgent than ever (with the weak global economy, degrading environment, rapid change), it has also never been more likely.

Once Upon a Revolution: A Story With No End

February 9, 2014 David D. Kirkpatrick and Mayy El-Sheikhfeb, www.nytimes.com Educate! Egypt, Movies

However stirring the images of Arab Spring idealism might seem to Western audiences, “The Square” is often painful viewing for those who lived through it, a heartbreaking reminder of hopes deferred and fears fulfilled. The film, made by the Egyptian-American director Jehane Noujaim and shot before she knew how the story would end, chronicles a handful of young rebels struggling to save their revolution from larger and more cynical forces: the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. Seemingly everyone here who has seen “The Square” has some complaint about omissions or distortions. The current military-backed government, possibly displeased with the depiction of the army, has not yet allowed it to be distributed in Egypt.

How the West Manufactures ‘Opposition Movements’

February 4, 2014 Andre Vltchek, , www.counterpunch.org Educate! Cuba, Egypt, Thailand, Ukraine, Venezuela

The West is continuously manufacturing and then supporting oppressive forces, be they feudal or religious. The more oppressed people are, the less disposed they are to fight for justice and for their rights. The more scared they are, the easier it is to control them. Feudalism, religious oppression and cruel right-wing dictatorships, all that serves perfectly well both the market fundamentalism of the Empire, and its obsession with controlling the planet. But such an arrangement of the world is abnormal, and therefore temporary. Human beings are longing for justice and, in their essence, are a sharing and decent species. Albert Camus, correctly, arrived at the conclusion in his powerful novel “The Plague” (analogy to fight against fascism): “there is more to admire than to despise in humans”. What the West is now doing to the world; igniting conflicts, supporting banditry and terror, sacrificing millions of people for its own commercial interests, is nothing new under the sun.

Egypt: Three Years From Revolution To Military Rule

February 1, 2014 Sharif Abdel Kouddous, www.thenation.com Educate! Egypt

January 25, 2011, was a transformative moment for Egypt. Thousands of protesters flooded the streets to call for the downfall of Hosni Mubarak’s sclerotic regime, confronting the notorious security forces on National Police Day and sparking a mass uprising that reverberated around the world. This year, January 25 brings with it a feeling of the revolution’s undoing. A crude monument erected by the new military-backed government stands in the center of Tahrir Square—once the epicenter of autonomous mass mobilization, now a space controlled by the state and its security forces. Three protesters this week were sentenced to two years in prison for defacing the structure. The ruling barely registered in the news. Since the military ouster of elected president Mohamed Morsi last July, followed by the brutal crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood, the security establishment has emerged re-empowered, reinvigorated and out for revenge, cracking down on its opponents with unprecedented severity. Much of Egypt is awash in conformist state worship, fueled by the shrill narrative of a war on terror and the age-old autocratic logic that trades rights for the promise of security.

Egypt: Protesters Killed On Third Anniversary Of Revolt

January 25, 2014 Patrick Kingsley, www.theguardian.com Resist! Egypt

A few miles west, at Mostafa Mahmoud square, pro-democracy activists expressing the opposite viewpoint were prevented from gathering for a march by police. "As soon as I got to Mostafa Mahmoud, two cops came up to me, kept kicking me and telling me to get the fuck out or else they'll jail me," tweeted a leftwing activist, Tarek Shalaby. Police later attacked another leftist rally near Tahrir Square, continuing a crackdown on all forms of dissent that has seen thousands of Islamists and dozens of secular activists arrested since July. "This is not the Egypt that we are looking for," said a spokesman for the 6 April group, the youth movement that organised many of the first protests against Mubarak in 2011.

Egypt’s Prisons Full To Brim With Activists, Journalists

January 15, 2014 Louisa Loveluck, www.vice.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt

Over the past three Fridays, Egyptian police have arrested over 700 protesters and killed another 27, according to official figures. There was a time when these numbers would have led the news bulletins; now, they're buried in half-hearted weekend round-ups. The news, it seems, is as tired with the situation in Egypt as the people who've retreated from politics in the years since the 2011 revolution. According to Wiki Thawra, a website dedicated to documenting the Egyptian revolution, over 21,000 people have been arrested since the 3rd of July, the overwhelming majority of them during protests against the military ousting of Mohamed Morsi. The former president's Muslim Brotherhood, leaders of the nation just seven months ago, are now among its most despised criminals; on Christmas Day, the interim Egyptian government declared the organisation a terrorist group, despite scant evidence to suggest that this is the case.

Mass Protests Grow As Military Drags Egypt Back To Dictatorship

January 10, 2014 Roger Annis, www.truth-out.org Resist! Egypt, Wars and Militarism

The military-dominated regime that seized power in Egypt in July 2013 has escalated its attacks on freedom and democracy in the country. A series of pronouncements were issued in late December, including the banning of the country's largest political movement - the Muslim Brotherhood. By all evidence, Egypt's economic and military elite are taking the country back to the darkest days of the rule of former dictator Hosni Mubarak or even farther into the abyss. The regime's new measures have been accompanied by regressive court decisions and assaults on protesting citizens by police and soldiers backed by plainclothes thugs. A harrowing prospect threatens the country - that of a violent war by the regime and its backers against the population, similar to the bloody war that was waged by Algeria's government and military against the people of that country during the 1990s and 2000s. Courageous protests by growing sections of Egyptian society are blocking the road of civil war that the regime seems hell-bent on taking. Civilian protest and organizing offer hope that the country can return to a path of democracy and social justice that opened with the overthrow of Mubarak in February 2011.

Egyptian Protest Organizers Sentenced To Two Years In Jail

January 6, 2014 Staff, revolutionarysocialism.tumblr.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Egypt

MENA Solidarity Network reports that Mahienour el-Masry and Hassan Moustafa, two leading activists with the Revolutionary Socialists in Alexandria, Egypt, have been sentenced for defying anti-protest laws. They each face two years of hard labour in prison and a £4,000 fine. Four other Alexandrian activists, Lu’ay Al-Qahwagi, Amr Hafez, Nasir Abu-al-Hamd and Islam Muhamadein, received the same sentence. The activists were charged with organising a demonstration without police permission. This was made illegal in Egypt under new laws brought in late last year by General al-Sisi’s regime.

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