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Campus activism updates

Posted on 02/11/200730/12/2020 By 3arabawy

From the Daily Star Egypt:

Two journalists have filed a series of complaints against both campus security at Ain Shams University and its president, Ahmad Zaki Badr, and say that guards obstructed them from reporting on student demonstrations last week, blocking one man’s entrance to the campus and violently beating another who made it inside.
Aboul Seoud Muhammad, a journalist with Al-Masry Al-Youm, says that security forces barred him from entering the campus when he went to cover the demonstrations protesting vote-rigging and state interference in student body elections.
“I gave the security officers at the gates my card saying that I am a journalist and a member of the syndicate, but they said that I couldn’t enter unless I had a special pass,” Muhammad told Daily News Egypt. “I knew this wasn’t right, so I called the President of the University, Ahmad Zaki Badr, and he said he would send someone from the public relations (PR) office down to escort me in to the campus.
“I waited for two hours and no one came,” he added. “I called the president’s office and the PR office again and again and no one ever came down.”
While he stood waiting outside the university, Muhammad says he saw Amr Sharaf, a photographer from Al Dostour, come stumbling out. He had been badly beaten.
“He was badly hurt and had wounds on his head,” says Muhammad. “He said he had been beaten by a police officer.
“We tried to take a picture of Amr Sharaf and his wounds but the security officers said we couldn’t because it would tarnish the reputation of the university.”

Moreover, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports on mass protests on several campuses yesterday in Ain Shams, Fayoum, Ganoub el-Wadi and others over variety of issues including the increase in education fees and text books prices, vote rigging in student elections.

You can also find more background reports on the violations that marred the past student union elections here and here.

Mubarak’s nuclear program

Posted on 02/11/200718/01/2021 By 3arabawy

The regime has shown over and over and over and over again that it cannot handle infrastructure projects, housing, sewage, water, trains, buses, roads, and now they are going nuclear?! If you cannot take care of your trains, how will you take care of the nuclear reactors?!!

And what a cheap move to appease the national sentiments of the public. And I guess it worked for the confused nationalist opposition, including Hamdeen Sabbahi (see video below) of the Nasserist Karama, who declared support for the move.

I totally oppose this move. I do not trust the regime with one gram of uranium. Power could be generated by dzillion other safer ways than nuclear energy.

Down with Mubarak!

Mubarak’s crackdown on free press continues

Posted on 31/10/200730/12/2020 By 3arabawy

The pro-US dictator continues his crackdown on the opposition and independent press:

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a sentence of one-month’s forced labor imposed on editor of al-Wafd, Anwar Al-Hawari and Younes Darwish, the daily’s correspondent in Assiut, 380 kms south of Cairo, for “publishing false news” about fraud by two members of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
Darwish wrote an article that appeared in March 2007 based on a meeting of the regional municipal council in Assiut, during which two lawyers, both NDP members, were accused of illegally obtaining land belonging to the ministry of Islamic affairs.
The correspondent said that he had made no judgement about the two complainants but the local court nevertheless sentenced Anwar Al-Hawari and Younes Darmish to a month of forced labor. They will remain free while awaiting the outcome of their appeal, which is due to open on 5 January 2008.
“The growing number of court cases brought against Egyptian journalists is in complete contradiction with Hosni Mubarak’s electoral programme,” the worldwide press freedom organization said. “He promised at the start of his new mandate to decriminalise press offences.”

I received also a statement from HRINFO, which you can read here.

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