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Sunday, 7 May 2006
Alaa and his wife and fellow blogger Manal
Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary's branch fight for independence. He, and about 10 others, were rounded up in the street, beaten up and thrown in a police car. Amongst those who got arrested were at least 3 girls, and the police beat up at least another 2 girls as well.
The way it worked, the police made sure to press the demonstartors close to the egyptian musem, where they cordoned them and wouldn't let them leave, while continiously hurling insults at them. The demonstartors tried to get the police to let them go for half an hour, but no avail. The Police cordon then opend where a group of plainly dressed police officers and thugs rushed in and started beating up the demonstartors and dragging them on the asphalt till they threw them in the police vehicles. The Police also made sure that none of the satalite news channels would be able to get video footage of what they did by not allowing the press to come close and keeping them away the entire time.
Now, I don't know that this will be just a one night arrest thing or if they will try to make an example out of him and keep him arrested for a while. I am still waiting on that piece of news. But by all the gods in heaven, if they keep him more than another day I will start my own campaign and will not rest till we free him like we did AbdelKarim. I will be damned if we let the regime get away with this. So, readers, if things come to that, we will need your help. The Committe to protect bloggers is no more , we are on our own and the regime is getting more desperate, paranoid and brutal by the minute. We will most certainly need your support to get him out, but let's just hope it doesn't come to that.
For now, all we can do, is wait and see.
Rabena yostor!
Update: They've taken alaa to the state secuirty building in Heliopolis. Rumors I am hearing are not good, at all.
I hate feeling so helpless!
Update: Mostafa has more information on what went down.
Alaa Abd El-Fatah was arrested
today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful
demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists who were arrested over
the past two weeks in a non-violent sit in as well who were held in
custody for two weeks under investigation for "crimes" that if anything
would raise only mockery including: humiliating the president,
possession of "publishing equipment"(graffiti spray) and blocking
traffic. The first group of activists arrested two weeks ago was
supposed to have their cases reviewed by prosecution today, so as to
release or renew holding them under investigation. In solidarity with
them 200 lawyers approached as a defense council, a number of judges,
and a number of activists among whom were Alaa and his colleagues
gathered around the court house. Authorities denied the activists entry
to the court house, in addition to attempting to present the
"detainees" files only, and not the detainees themselves to
prosecution. For hours, Alaa and his fellow activists shouted slogans
against the government, sang and showed solidarity with their detained
fellow activists. At the end of the demonstration police forces
surrounding the group increased, refused to let them leave and started
picking those to arrest, Alaa and ten others. They were taken to the
nearby police station were they were denied lawyers, or any visitors.
Lawyers are now standing outside the station just monitoring in case
the arrested activists are taken somewhere else, which is exactly what
happened. Three of them were taken blindfolded to another police
station and were released later.
The latest attacks of Egyptian authorities rose to squash public
support for the demands of Egyptian Judges for complete independence of
the judiciary authority, which had the executive authorities
interfering with its work for decades to forge elections, detain
opposition leaders and punish voices that rise against decades of
ruling under emergency law. Judges also demanded an investigation in
the forgery of last elections. To shut them up, in a step with illegal
procedures, the government, represented by the ministry of justice,
referred two of the judges leading the movement to the validity
committee. Judges had an open sit in in their club (syndicate) for
weeks now, the sit in that was supported by another sit in by Egyptian
activists from Kifaya (enough), Al Horreyya Alan (freedom now), El Ghad
party in addition to other movements and independent individuals
outside the judges syndicate. For three days in a raw, police forces,
assisted by thugs, attacked the activists sit in late at night,
brutally beat the demonstrators and each time arrested a group of the
demonstrators. At the first night: April 24th, police forces brutally
beat up a judge, a court president.
60 activists were arrested in these attacks: among them Malek Mostafa
, Mohammed Sharkawy and Mohammed Adel who are fellow bloggers. Mohammed
Adel is a minor and is held in a regular prison facility. The arrested
group has started an open hunger strike in solidarity with the demands
of the judges and in protest for the continuity of their detention.
Alaa is one of the most active people working to support the
blogosphere in Egypt. Coupled with his wife manal, thier "Bit Bucket",
is the aggregator collecting almost all Egyptian bloggers. He "won the special reporters without borders DW Best of Blogs award in 2005. He is one of the people that the Egyptian blogosphere success and latest wide spreading is indebted to.
May 7th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
dear sam,
anything i can do to help - just let me know.
–raf*
May 7th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
we will wait
May 7th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Why all that crying?
It’s part of the US plans to democraticize the ME - or was it stabilize?
You must know darling, the MB have to be stopped and Israel - the only
jewish-only democracy loves your pharao, who sits on his hands - like
all the other stooges from Marocco to Pakistan - while they make Palestine
araberrein.
So please give us once more a rant on the MB and the inferior palestians.
May 7th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
And - please - read once more what you wrote on arab unity
… brilliant.
So please - do some more rants on the backwardness of Islam,
of polygamism, violence against women and eggs.
More rants trampeling on the palestinians, make them look
silly or outright evil and insane.
And please shed some tears about Abbas, Dahlan and their
brethren,
Go on pleasing your masters in the US, lick their boots and
swallow whatever they want - and may be, they will release
your friends then.
I.e. you have to become the perfect servant and say loud:
“War is Peace”, “Ignorance is Strength” and “Freedom is
Slavery”.
You are SOOOOOOO smart.
May 7th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Thanks eee. As always, your rhetoric is very telling of what kind of a person you are!
May 7th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
I want to cry.
I’ll be praying for all of them.
May 7th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Egypt has embassies all over the world, folks in the free world. Start writing letters to them. Contact your own Members of Parliament/Senators/Congressmen/Assembly men and women.
I am very sorry to hear that Committee to protect bloggers has folded.
May 7th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
At first I listened to what eee had to say. (I’m slow).
Me thinks eee has never known freedom.
May 7th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
eee is the sound made by an ass, isn’t it. Or at least the first half. Does that mean he’s half-assed.
May 7th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Oh, my God. That’s horrendous.
May 7th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
[...] The Egyptian Sandmonkey says, “But by all the gods in heaven, if they keep him more than another day I will start my own campaign and will not rest till we free him like we did AbdelKarim. I will be damned if we let the regime get away with this. So, readers, if things come to that, we will need your help. The Committe to protect bloggers is no more , we are on our own and the regime is getting more desperate, paranoid and brutal by the minute. We will most certainly need your support to get him out, but let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that. For now, all we can do, is wait and see. Rabena yostor!” [...]
May 7th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Please consider moving to the U.S. (quickly)! Things are getting too dicey in Egypt for rational people to stay there. We all admire your gutsy format; but want you to do it from a safer place.
May 7th, 2006 at 5:13 pm
I salute your courage and wish you and yours the best of luck, now get out of the MIddle East and get a visa (If your not already here) for the United States.
America needs moderate muslims to stem the tide of Isalamafascism!
May 7th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Ok !! some of you people are gonna just love this !!
I discovered the true identity of the sand monkey !! and i got undeniable proof about it right HERE !!
take a look at this !!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/BloodyMando/SandMonkeyTrueidentity.jpg
i always thought something fishy was going on !
May 7th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
ok now on a more serious note…
i dont think that the right course of action is for all the moderate , rational people here to leave the country!
we all respect and support them … we shoudnt turn our backs away just because things are starting to get icky.
May 7th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
we shoudnt turn our backs away just because things are starting to get icky.
True. But for some, that fight is too much for them.
As for Sandy’s *true* identity… Damn. And I was really starting to like him too
May 7th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
They called the cell of Alaa and another girl from the arrested protesters and a policeman replied saying we are fucking them now. He meant it literally. If you are not familiar with Egyptian police methods, they do this all the time in police stations…..
May 7th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I want my dear friend Sandmonkey to be safe, too, but dammit, the moderate, intellectual class has been fleeing the tryannical regimes in the Middle East for decades. Someone has to stay and fight the good fight. Imagine if only the supporters of the rotten regimes and the MB were left.
May 7th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Stay and fight. If it were my country I would feel obliged to stay and fight. I can’t tell you the best way to fight, but fight you must. Hell, if I had a plane ticket, the monetary means, and few pressing obligations, I would come to Egypt to help you even if it meant a beating from the police. I mean that seriously.
Not that I want you to go out and get yourself in trouble if it isn’t going to achieve anything. You decide what tactics you wish to employ.
May 7th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
> As always, your rhetoric is very telling of what kind of a person you are!
I’m what kind?
I’m logical and rational - while you are not.
You have to decide what you want: democracy or “american
democracy”.
As long as you decide to pose as the darling of the american
masters of the universe, you have to live with the pharao who
receives billions in bribes from the americans and imprisons
your friends - thus “stabilizing” the ME and securing Israels realm.
It’s your decision.
May 7th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Please keep us posted on what happens to Alaa.
May 7th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
“You have to decide what you want: democracy or “american
democracy”.”
American democracy is not perfect but it is the best so far. The US constitution has stood up to the attacks of corrupt politicians for over 200 years. Even Bush is not trying to change it so he can get a third term in office.
Other countries have “Presidents” who have been in office for four terms or more.Castro, for example, or Ghaddafi. That is not democracy of any kind.
The US constitution was designed for a country full of religious conflicts and crooked politicians. Copy it exactly, and Egypt would have a very good starting point.
Actually, one key point is that the US is a Republic, not a Democracy. Hence, no referendums.
Also, note that each member of Congress represents a district, not a religious or ethnic group. Every voter has somebody to complain to. (They got this badly wrong in Iraq.)
(I am not American.)
May 7th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
“I’m what kind?”
E… I’ll tell you what kind you are..
You’re at best a double digit IQ islamist supporting foul mouthed fool…
Look inward to solve your problems, unfortunately for you the USA and Israel are not to source of your problems.. you are, a very sad reality, that I’m sure you wont get..
May 7th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
SM, please keep us up to date. There are many thousands reading this blog. We can make the Mubarak government feel the pressure by talking to our Governments.
May 7th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
in truth one can ask what really goes in those peoples minds as they arest other people for just uttering their opinions
May 7th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
[...] Sandmonkey is reporting that blogger Alaa has been arrested: Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary’s branch fight for independence. He, and about 10 others, were rounded up in the street, beaten up and thrown in a police car. Amongst those who got arrested were at least 3 girls, and the police beat up at least another 2 girls as well. …. Update: They’ve taken alaa to the state secuirty building in Heliopolis. Rumors I am hearing are not good, at all. [...]
May 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
[...] Sandmonkey is reporting that blogger Alaa has been arrested: Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary’s branch fight for independence. He, and about 10 others, were rounded up in the street, beaten up and thrown in a police car. Amongst those who got arrested were at least 3 girls, and the police beat up at least another 2 girls as well. …. Update: They’ve taken alaa to the state secuirty building in Heliopolis. Rumors I am hearing are not good, at all. [...]
May 7th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
> American democracy is not perfect but it is the best so far.
Best for Egypt? “Stabilizing” the pharao with 2 billions per year?
May 7th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
> unfortunately for you the USA and Israel are not to source of your problems..
Correct. I’m not egypt, not living under the clout of one of these rogue states
at all. Fortunately.
May 7th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
No, “Sandmonkey”, do not come to the West. We don’t need or want any more Muslim savages. In fact, those that are here should be expelled and deported back to the Islamic paradises where they belong.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
EEE/Western Man:
Would you be so kind to fuck off?
May 7th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
Shame on you E, why is it now a discussion on what is better, American democracy or whatsoever democracy!!
Why is it dahlan and abbas. dahlan and abbas may like what is happening and the arrests. Why is it Israel again in the posts? I’m an anti western, anti Israeli…
But why again I sense that there is always accusation for freedom fighters that they are pro American or supports the Israeli agenda. This damn propaganda that all the governments here play with through media of some conspiracy to oust some regime and install an American one.
They are fighting for a better life.
Freedom for them I wish.
If I’m with democracy then I’m with abbas and dahlan.
Wake up.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
[...] Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd El-Fatah has been arrested during a pro-democracy demonstration and is being held by Egyptian security services. Egypt is one of the largest recipients of US foreign aid donations of any country in the world. If this is the sort of thing that the Egyptian government will do to citizens engaged in peaceful and democratic program, then the US government should not continue to bankroll such activities. [...]
May 7th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
> Would you be so kind to fuck off?
Why?
And even the “Western Man” pleases me, because he demonstrates - satirical
or not - the inevitable inefficacy of a sandmonkey to appear as western - what-
ever that means exactly.
May 7th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
> Shame on you E,
I’m trying to.
> But why again I sense that there is always accusation for freedom fighters
> that they are pro American or supports the Israeli agenda.
You mean Mrs. Alaa Abd El-Fatah?
I didn’t say or mean, that she supports the American or Israeli agenda.
It only appears to me, that the assumption of the eg. middle class - Sandmon-
key & friends - that they can morph Egypt into a real democracy with the HELP
from the US is doomed to fail.
Despite this I hope, she will be released soon and unharmed.
> If I’m with democracy then I’m with abbas and dahlan.
Abbas and Dahlan are stooges of Israel and the US.
They sold you - assumed you are pal. - to Israel and are committed to continue
with that. Another Buthelezi.
> Wake up.
Projection?
May 7th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
I would like to note that Socrates wrote what is published on my blog.
May 7th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
I’m sure the US government cares only for it’s Interest.
I meant “If I’m with democracy then I’m with abbas and dahlan!!”
They are for sure stooges of Israel and the US.
especially dahlan.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. it seemed i got psyched up with supporting Alaa Abd El-Fatah and his friends in their stand against the tyrany in Egyept.
May 7th, 2006 at 11:20 pm
EEE —> You kinda remind of that dude called “Angry(American)Libian”, you might even be one and the same person. My advice to you is —-> Stop acting like the childish f**k that you are. Make your point and leave.
Westernman —> Another piece of white trailer trash who thinks “immigrants talking all the good jobs” are the reason he’s such a pathetic looser. F**k off get a life and get a job.
Egyptian Government —> Free Manal and Alaa you incompetent, moronic dipshits. Why don’t u pick on somebody you’re own size. Why don’t you go after the guys who’ve robbed and ruined this country instead of those who’re trying (hopelessly) to fix it.
May 7th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
> EEE $(G!7 (B> You kinda remind of that dude called “Angry(American)Libian”, you
> might even be one and the same person.
No.
> My advice to you is $(G!7 (B-> Stop acting like the childish f**k that you are.
> Make your point and leave.
Thanks for your advice, that I’m going to ignore.
> Egyptian Government $(G!7 (B> Free Manal and Alaa you incompetent, moronic dipshits.
But that is part of your policy to stabilize the ME?!
> Why don -Ft u pick on somebody youre own size. Why dont you go after the -A
> guys who -Fve robbed and ruined this country instead of those whore trying -A
> (hopelessly) to fix it.
Hopelessly? Why?
May 7th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
[...] Egyptian blogger and democracy activist Alaa has been arrested by Egyptian authorities, and worse. I’ll let Sandmonkey say it in his own words: Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary’s branch fight for independence. He, and about 10 others, were rounded up in the street, beaten up and thrown in a police car. Amongst those who got arrested were at least 3 girls, and the police beat up at least another 2 girls as well. [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 3:39 am
I just want to know what EEE..has got to do with Alaa being arrested, sent to state security and possibly in big trouble? What does Abbas have to do with it or anyone else?
From this perspective, the only thing that is important is that a man that has simply exercised his natural right to free speech has been arrested and is likely to be persecuted and prosecuted for this effort in demanding the simplest concept in a free society: free judiciary that is independent and treats every person as equal before the law.
That is the puprose of Alaa’s demonstration and our purpose here is not to argue with EEE but to get the word out that a fellow blogger has been arrested without cause and needs protection. No more responding to EEE. Please make sure that you are contacting the Egyptian Embassy in the US. You may also contact the American Embassy in Egypt to make them aware that we are aware.
consularcairo@state.gov
If bloggers disappear into prisons as they do in Iran and other police states and we forget them, then we are not doing our jobs as free speech advocates (the purpose of blogging on political subjects in the first place). Then we are as the poem goes:
First they came for the Iranians and I did nothing
Then they came for the Egyptians and I did ….
Don’t let the word be “nothing”. Get on the phone, write a letter, email. We will not go “quietly into that good night” we must “rage” or the light dies.
To the barricades!
May 8th, 2006 at 3:51 am
This is horrible SM. What our governments are doing to us is quite disgusting! They can simply pick anyone at any time and through them into jail….until when?
May 8th, 2006 at 3:57 am
Sorry typo!
This is horrible SM. What our governments are doing to us is quite disgusting! They can simply pick anyone at any time and throw them into jail….until when?
May 8th, 2006 at 4:38 am
The whole world will be watching. Everyone of us who read you will do their
best to put pressure on their and your government.
To all visitors to this site: go write your emails and letters, make the phone calls…that is the least one can do for freedom.
May 8th, 2006 at 4:46 am
sorry 2 hear this!
May 8th, 2006 at 5:06 am
My prayers for Alaa. I am so very sorry to hear about this.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:00 am
For the most part, I agree with “eee” but it’s bad timing. I think support is what is Alaa needs.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Sad - the narcissistic wankers like “eee” who just want to talk about themselves
May 8th, 2006 at 10:38 am
[...] A prominent Egyptian blogger and democracy activist has been arrested. Sandmonkey has the details. [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
> I just want to know what EEE..has got to do with Alaa being arrested, sent
> to state security and possibly in big trouble? What does Abbas have to do
> with it or anyone else?
It’s that difficult?
OK, then I will help you once:
Everything darling. Abbas is a stooge of the israelis and the americans, a
thug which would sell his mother to them, just to become the “president” of
a collection of ghettos and concentration-camps, which your fascist government
will then happily call a “palestinian state”.
If Egypt would be a “democracy” - not an “american democracy” - it’s not that
likely, that its democratically elected government would continue to sit on
its hands like Mubarak watching the Pal. being killed ans starved out by the
state of the eternal holocaust-victims.
So it’s your insane government - those who claim to bring democracy everywhere
- which pays - at least - an annual bribe of 2.000.000.000 dollars to Mubarak
to keep him in power for your sake and that of the only jewish-only democracy
on earth.
There is direct link from Abbas, to Mubarak to Alaa, which is considered as a
threat by Mubarak, by the US and by the sooooooo smart Sandmonkey!
> From this perspective, the only thing that is important is that a man that
> has simply exercised his natural right to free speech has been arrested and
> is likely to be persecuted and prosecuted for this effort in demanding the
> simplest concept in a free society: free judiciary that is independent and
> treats every person as equal before the law.
Seems you don’t like authoritarian governments?
Then please take a map of the middle east, and write letters to all those
goverments under the american clout: Marocco, Tunesia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan,
S.A. …. just to name a few.
> That is the puprose of Alaa’s demonstration and our purpose here is not to
> argue with EEE but to get the word out that a fellow blogger has been
> arrested without cause
Wrong, wrong, wrong - badly wrong.
Alaa was not arrested without cause! She wants - may be - more or less free
elections, a judiciary system not under the clout of Mubarak - she threatens
Mubarak and thus the whole crappy house of cards set up by your insane gover-
nment. She I S dangerous for Y O U.
> and needs protection. No more responding to EEE. Please make sure that you
> are contacting the Egyptian Embassy in the US. You may also contact the
> American Embassy in Egypt to make them aware that we are aware.
But this endangers the security of the United States of America!
Do you know, that there are thousands of other people - affiliated to the
Muslim-Brothers - which jailed and torturted - sometimes killed - for no
reason? Read the reports of ai or HRW.
What will happen, when they are all released like Alaa?
I also don’t understand what’s so wrong with torturing innocent people.
That’s what the US did and does, not only in Iraq, Afghanistan or Guantanamo.
No, your Neoconazi government even kidnapped people in Italy and brought them
to e g y p t, to get them tortured by their friend Mubarak there.
So you may appeal to your government, but be aware - that this might bring
you on their terrorist supporters watchlist.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
> For the most part, I agree with “eee” but it’s bad timing.
> I think support is what is Alaa needs.
Yes for the latter.
May 8th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
[...] Egyptian blogger Alaa has been arrested. [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
[...] Info here, here, and here. [...]
May 8th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Just out of curiosity…
How come sandmonkey hasn’t been detailed? Does he actually go to those protests? What’s his name? What does he look like?
Is he just a shit starter? Does he ever get off his seat to ‘liberate’ the oppressed or is preaching and being idolized his only hobby?
Looking forward to oh so many insults from the sandmonkey worshippers.
May 8th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
Detained…that is.
May 9th, 2006 at 12:03 am
give him a break
he can’t do much with that republican cock lodged firmly in his throat
you suck sandmonkey
maybe one day they’ll make you a real boy
May 9th, 2006 at 2:37 am
They need to arrest you too! I look forward to hearing the good news. You are one sad, self-hating arab.
May 9th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
[...] Sandmonkey has more and points to a Free Alaa Blog. [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
[...] Please, I dont ask you guys anything with urgency ever, but this is beyond important. Several bloggers in Egypt have been arrested and are being held, and Sam is possibly in danger of being arrested himself, and this information needs to be dissiminated as widely as possible. What follows is the email I have recieved from Sam……how can we spread the word? As you may have heard by now, Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah has been arrested alongside 10 others while demonstrating in support of the independence of the Judiciary in Egypt and the release of previous demonstrators who were detained 2 weeks earlier. The Police entrapped them, cordoning off their peaceful protest and then proceeded to handpick the demonstrators that they wanted to detain, beat them, and then arrested them. Alaa and those arrested with him are now arrested for 15 days “pending investigation” , which could be renewed indefinitely if the state so wishes. He and the men were sent to the infamous Torah Prison and the girls to the Qanatir prison for the duration. This makes them hardly safe, because stuff that goes on in Egyptian prisons on the hands of the jailors: beatings, sexual assaults, torture of all kinds. [...]
May 9th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
[...] As you may have heard by now, Egyptian Blogger Alaa Abdel Fatah has been arrested alongside 10 others while demonstrating in support of the independence of the Judiciary in Egypt and the release of previous demonstrators who were detained 2 weeks earlier. The Police entrapped them, cordoning off their peaceful protest and then proceeded to handpick the demonstrators that they wanted to detain, beat them, and then arrested them. [...]
May 10th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
[...] Egyptin demokratian tulevaisuus ei nyt kovin lupaavalta. Egyptin vankilassa istuu bloginpitj ja demokratia-aktivisti Alaa Abdel Fatah, joka pidtettiin maanantaina rauhanomaisen mielenosoituksen yhteydess. Egyptin viranomaiset ovat pidttneet yhteens 48 henkil mielenosoituksen johdosta. Reportteritilmanrajojaoliaikaisemmin palkinnutAlaanjahnenpuolisonsaManalinyllpitmnmanalaa- blogin. [...]
May 10th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
[...] På det seneste er 48 ægyptere blevet arresteret af myndighederne for deres kamp for større frihed, heriblandt 6 ægyptiske bloggere. Mest kendt er bloggeren Alaa, der nu er blevet hovedperson i en kampagne for at få bloggerne og de andre fri. De ægyptiske fængsler er med god grund berygtede, og det er meget sandsynligt, at de ægyptiske myndigheder har besluttet sig for at benytte lejligheden til at lukke munden på de efterhånden mange kritiske ægyptiske bloggere, der kræver større frihed og forsøger at pege på en tredje vej i et land, hvor alternativet til militærdiktatur sandsynligvis er et islamisk teokrati. Det er særdeles vigtigt for os her i vesten at støtte frihedens kræfter i Mellemøsten, og i øvrigt udvise respekt for de mennesker, som i sidste ende sætter livet på spil for at udtrykke sig frit. [...]
May 12th, 2006 at 6:53 am
I’m coming into this discussion late, but I’m really concerned about two things:
1) That a series of websites are personalizing the call to have “Alaa” freed, as opposed to keeping the pressure on for releasing of the people you mentioned. While the release of one would be better than the release of none, all would be better, and it should be the objective.
2) I’m concerned that by bringing attention to him as a blogger, and demonstrating the scope of his readership and influence, we will be putting Alaa at even greater danger than the others. I mean, true, they probably know he’s a blogger. But do they know how many people read him? I’m sorry, but the way Egyptian law is written, I’m just waiting for the allegations against bloggers to get bigger and bigger. I think advocates of Alaa’s freedom should think carefully (and not emotionally) about how to proceed in comparatively uncharted bloggers-as-activist waters.
May 12th, 2006 at 8:43 am
On the other hand, he’s blogging from his cell, so maybe I shouldn’t second guess…
May 13th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
[...] While the arrest of the well known Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El-Fatah has received slight attention in the media, the news of his "kidnapping" by Egyptian security forces is making its way around the blogosphere at lightening speed. Alaa was arrested on May 7th, along with 47 others (including 3 women) for protesting peacefully in support for democratic reforms and an independent judiciary in Egypt (which receives over $2 billion a year in aid from the US alone). Alaa and his wife Manal operate the Arabic language blog aggregator Bit Bucket. [...]
May 17th, 2006 at 12:30 am
[...] There is a lot of more information on El-Fatah's arrest on Egyptian blogs. Much more than I was able to find through traditional media. Sabbah and SandMonkey have good content on what's been happening in Cairo the past few weeks. Sandmonkey, who posts anonomously continues to run his blog with regular updates on the protests. There are also distrubing pictures of police brutality against demonstrators in Cairo. [...]
May 20th, 2006 at 3:40 pm
[...] - Egyptian blogger Alaa jailed: Sandmonkey reports it this way: Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary’s branch fight for independence. He, and about 10 others, were rounded up in the street, beaten up and thrown in a police car. Amongst those who got arrested were at least 3 girls, and the police beat up at least another 2 girls as well. [...]
May 31st, 2006 at 6:29 pm
[...] En Egipto ha sido detenido un blogger y activista político junto a otros 9 compañeros por protestar por la reciente detención de varios jueces y 49 personas más. El blogger aquí mencionado (aquí también y aquí )fue en su día reconocido por Reporteros Sin Fronteras por su trabajo en defensa de la libre expresión. [...]
June 19th, 2006 at 2:02 am
[...] Fifty judges protested against the Egyptian government with the goal of obtaining independence from Mubarak’s regime. The judges are angry that the Mubarak regime allegedly forced them into giving their seal of approval to what they believe were fraudulent elections last year. Egyptian police responded to the judges's peaceful protests by beating one of the judges and arresting 15 of his supporters. A small protest movement developed as a result of this and Last week the government responded by arresting 49 activists, including a blogger named Malek. Today the Egyptian government arrested Alaa Ahmed Seif el Islam and another 11 others for their support of the judges protests. I haven't read Alaa's blog before–it is in Arabic, but I do read the blogs of the Egyptian Sandmonkey and The Big Pharaoh and they seem very alarmed by this turn of events. This is from the Sandmonkey Alaa, blogger, co-founder of the egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and democracy activist, got arrested today during a protest to support the Judiciary's branch fight for independence. He, and about 10 others, were rounded up in the street, beaten up and thrown in a police car. Amongst those who got arrested were at least 3 girls, and the police beat up at least another 2 girls as well. [...]
August 24th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
[...] Alaa Arrested Its War [...]
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February 22nd, 2007 at 6:26 pm
[...] In short, they’re becoming a major headache for Mubarak. He had one of the country’s most popular bloggers, Alaa Abd al-Fatah, arrested earlier this year but released him after 45 days due to the uproar. WaPo wrote about the incident and declared blogging a “fast track to prison” in Egypt. Today’s verdict bears them out, albeit with a twist — it’s Al-Azhar that sought this conviction, so Mubarak gets to send a message while hiding behind Islamic robes. [...]
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